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For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

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Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
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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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err but in this matter I cannot say, Lord help my unbelief.
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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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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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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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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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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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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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Cupid the little greatest god.
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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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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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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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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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By writing much, one learns to write well.
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