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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

Robert Southey

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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
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Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
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One fault begets another one crime renders another necessary.
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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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You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are gray You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray.
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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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There is a magic in that little world, home it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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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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She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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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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Cupid the little greatest god.
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The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
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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.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
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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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