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Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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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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