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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 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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Quote Left No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth. Quote Right
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Quote Left If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Quote Right
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Quote Left If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Quote Right
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Quote Left The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Quote Right
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