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“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

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Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)
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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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Book:The Doctor, &c
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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 cannot be repaired.”

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Book:Southey's Common-place Book
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“The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.”

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Book:Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the progress and prospects of society
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“I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.”

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Author:Robert Southey
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“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.”

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Book:The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism
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“Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.”

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Book:Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes
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“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir ...
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“It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.”

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Author:Robert Southey
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