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

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

Robert Southey
Evil, Necessary Evil

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Robert Southey
Fields, Clergymen, Parades
Robert Southey (1850). “The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey: (VIII, 390 p.)”, p.75

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

Robert Southey
Devil, Bed, Looks
Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1860). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.77

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

Robert Southey
Heaven, Good Intentions, Hell
Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.103

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Robert Southey
Pride, Independence, Charity

Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The World will find thee after many days. Be it with thee according to thy worth: Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

Robert Southey
Believe, Book, Water
Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.765

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Robert Southey
Religion, Unhappy, Dangerous
Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.281

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

Robert Southey
War, Army, Evil

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