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From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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