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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 It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn. Quote Right
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Quote Left No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth Quote Right
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Quote Left Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. Quote Right
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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 How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs