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.
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O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
To get by giving what you lost by gain.
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