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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.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
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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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In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
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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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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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You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are gray You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray.
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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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For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
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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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A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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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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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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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
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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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