It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Robert Southey
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More Quotes By Robert Southey
  1. Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.( Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

  2. It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

  3. As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

  4. Is but the threshold of eternity.

  5. 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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