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“ Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) ”

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Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness, and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

~ Robert Southey

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

~ Robert Southey

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

~ Robert Southey

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