The covetous person lives as if the world were made altoget… - Robert Southey

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The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Robert Southey

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Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

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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.

[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contracted model.

'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. - Robert Southey

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