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• Happy those
  Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
  Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
  Taught wisdom to mankind!

  Robert Southey

  Wisdom, Years, Taught

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.8

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• And when my own Mark Antony
  Against young Caesar strove,
  And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
  The cause was,--all for love.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Rome, Causes

  Robert Southey (1829). “All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella”, p.20

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• There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

  Robert Southey

  Book, Advice, Digestion

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.99

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• The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Dream, Reality

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• A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

  Robert Southey

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  Robert Southey (1856). “Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey”, p.258

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• And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?

  Robert Southey

  Summer, Tree, Hollies

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.129

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• A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Disease, Taste

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.42

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• I can remember, with unsteady feet,
  Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure
  In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long
  Have lost their power to please; which when I see them,
  Raise only now a melancholy wish
  I were the little trifler once again,
  Who could be pleas'd so lightly.

  Robert Southey

  Flower, Feet, Long

  Robert Southey (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)”, p.306

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• For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

  Robert Southey

  Norwich

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• There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

  Robert Southey

  Dog, Moving, World

  Robert Southey (1854). “Joan of Arc: and minor poems”, p.381

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• Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

  Robert Southey

  Christian, Character, Men

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• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

  Robert Southey

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

  Robert Southey

  Sky, Rainbow, Lovely

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.

  Robert Southey

  Doe, Demand, Littles

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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.

  Robert Southey

  Heaven, Good Intentions, Hell

  Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.103

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• Ye who dwell at home,
  Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Terror, Knows

  Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.227

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• What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Children, Reading

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.87

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• Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Character, Eye

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157

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• As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

  Robert Southey

  Evil, Necessary Evil

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• Cupid "the little greatest god."

  Robert Southey

  Life, Littles, Cupid

  Robert Southey (1851). “Southey's Common-place book”, p.462

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• Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

  Robert Southey

  Religion, Unhappy, Dangerous

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.281

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• That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

  Robert Southey

  Pride, Independence, Charity

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• Go, little Book! From this my solitude
  I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways:
  And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
  The World will find thee after many days.
  Be it with thee according to thy worth:
  Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Book, Water

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.765

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• Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

  Robert Southey

  Strength, Over You, Mind

  Robert Southey (1858). “The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism”, p.21

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• O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Atheist, Eye

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