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Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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By writing much, one learns to write well.
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I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err but in this matter I cannot say, Lord help my unbelief.
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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.
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The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
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Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
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Few people give themselves time to be friends.
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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
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