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By writing much, one learns to write well.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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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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Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
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In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
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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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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My days among the dead are passed Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
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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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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
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The pulpit is a clergyman's parade the parish is his field of active service.
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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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Cupid the little greatest god.
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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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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.
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Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
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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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For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.
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