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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
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For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
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Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.
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I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
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The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
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Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
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