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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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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
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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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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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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.
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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
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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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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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Cupid the little greatest god.
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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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