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Is but the threshold of eternity.

What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuade...

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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Char...

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have the...

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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss ca...

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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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Robert Southey

Poet

Born: 1774-08-12

Died: 1843-03-21

Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.More