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O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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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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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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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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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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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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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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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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One fault begets another one crime renders another necessary.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
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Few people give themselves time to be friends.
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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 another world for all that live and move-a better one!
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Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.
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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.
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Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.
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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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And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.
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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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