Robert Southey Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Robert Southey Quotes and Sayings
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A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
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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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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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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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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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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
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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.
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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
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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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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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They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
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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.
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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