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A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
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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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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
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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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One fault begets another one crime renders another necessary.
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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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Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
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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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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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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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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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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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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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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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Cupid the little greatest god.
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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
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Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
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