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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.

~Robert Southey

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

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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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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.

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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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

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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

~Robert Southey

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 12th, 1774

Died: March 21st, 1843

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