Best Quotes by Robert Southey (Top 10)
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Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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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.
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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.
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It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey
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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.
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A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
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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.
Robert Southey
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
More Robert Southey Quotes
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
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The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory
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There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken—the manner, the place and the time.
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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
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Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so.
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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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