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

Robert Southey
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  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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