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Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
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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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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
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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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If you would be pungent, be brief.
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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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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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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
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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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Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
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Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.
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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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In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
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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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Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed if well disposed, only more unhappy.
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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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