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Robert Southey (Writer)

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.
— Robert Southey hope
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 life
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
— robert southey love
But what they fought each other for, I could not well make out.
— robert southey
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on.
— robert southey world
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each others worth.
— robert southey friendship
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— robert southey words
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.
— robert southey peace
It was a summer evening; Old Kaspar’s work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
— robert southey work
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock— “O Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock.”
— robert southey christ
And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
— robert southey
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
— Robert Southey love
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits
— Robert Southey world
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 soul
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
— Robert Southey mind
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 brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
— Robert Southey hope
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
— Robert Southey world
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
— Robert Southey love
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
— Robert Southey men
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey words
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
— Robert Southey good
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey words
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
— Robert Southey life
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
— Robert Southey love
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.
— Robert Southey time
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
— Robert Southey war
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
— Robert Southey mind
Love is indestructible. Its holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.
— Robert Southey love
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
— Robert Southey man

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