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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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The pulpit is a clergyman's parade the parish is his field of active service.
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The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
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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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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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