John Keble — a remark

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“When you find yourself, as I dare say you sometimes do, overpowered as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other.”

Practical counsel to counter sadness through kindness · Letter, Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance

About John Keble

John Keble

25 April 1792–29 March 1866

John Keble was born on 25 April 1792 at Fairford in Gloucestershire, into a household where religion, learning, family affection, and the rhythms of rural England were closely joined. He would become one of the most widely read poets of nineteenth-century Britain, a distinguished Oxford scholar, a parish priest of…

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