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One fault begets another one crime renders another necessary.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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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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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
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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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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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Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
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There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
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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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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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Few people give themselves time to be friends.
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For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
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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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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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Cupid the little greatest god.
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Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.
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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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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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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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