Best Quotes by Robert Southey (Top 10)

  1. Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
  2. No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
  3. The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
  4. There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
  5. It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
  6. All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
  7. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.
  8. A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
  9. Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
  10. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

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