More quotes by Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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