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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.

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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Southey
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Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.
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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
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I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.
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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
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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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They sin who tell us love can die With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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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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In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
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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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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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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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