Robert Southey Quotes

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Magic In The World, Circles

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• My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

  Robert Southey

  Death, Names, Lasts

  'Carmen Nuptiale' 'The Lay of the Laureate. The Dream' 87

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• The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

  Robert Southey

  Intelligence, Progress, Ruins

  Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the progress and prospects of society”, p.361

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• She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

  Robert Southey

  Flirting, Play, Way

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey”, p.99

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• If you would be pungent, be brief.

  Robert Southey

  Would Be, Ifs

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" edited by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Dream, Nature, Men

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• Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

  Robert Southey

  Book, Giving, Rooms

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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

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.221

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• There is healing in the bitter cup.

  Robert Southey

  Healing, Affliction, Cups

  Robert Southey “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Few people give themselves time to be friends.

  Robert Southey

  Loyalty, People, Giving

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.611

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• It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

  Robert Southey

  Happiness, Teacher, Teaching

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.

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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

  Robert Southey

  Perseverance, Memories, Exercise

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• By writing much, one learns to write well.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Creative Writing, Wells

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• The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

  Robert Southey

  Wings, Sound, Bees

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.115

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• Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

  Robert Southey

  Funny Birthday, Years, Long

  'The Doctor' (1812) ch. 130

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

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• They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

  Robert Southey

  Thinking, Careers, Design

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• Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, Sleep, Woe

  "Common-place Book: Analytical readings".

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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

  Life, Lying, Practice

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• Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

  Robert Southey

  Knowledge

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey”, p.51

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• Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

  Robert Southey

  People, Born, Wit

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Happiness, Memories, Years

  Robert Southey (1930). “The doctor, &c”

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Clouds

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Positive, Mind, Wish

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