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Robert Southey

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Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet. One of the "Lake Poets"; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1813–1843.


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Quote Left The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words. Quote Right
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Quote Left To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. Quote Right
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Quote Left If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Quote Right
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Quote Left How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. Quote Right
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Quote Left Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself. Quote Right
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