[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite app… - Robert Southey

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

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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The march of intellect.

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And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win."
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
"But 'twas a famous victory.

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

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