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Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- Robert Southey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1774–1843)
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Immortality · anthology attribution: Southey
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