“It can never be too constantly remembered that we shall be punished or…” — Sydney Dobell

“It can never be too constantly remembered that we shall be punished or rewarded according to what we are.”

Placing moral character above outward performance · Letter to a young sister, 10 April 1856

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About Sydney Dobell

5 April 1824–22 August 1874

Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…

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