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• A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Men, Good Man

  Robert Southey (1850). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey”, p.279

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Looks, Care, Littles

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• War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

  Robert Southey

  War, Army, Evil

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• Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

  Robert Southey

  Memories, Light, Awful

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.696

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• The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

  Robert Southey

  Fields, Clergymen, Parades

  Robert Southey (1850). “The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey: (VIII, 390 p.)”, p.75

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• Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

  Robert Southey

  Blessed, Men, Wind

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• From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

  Robert Southey

  Devil, Bed, Looks

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1860). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.77

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• For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Personality, Poet

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1853). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.226

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