Our Friends Robert Southey Quotes
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~ Robert Southey Quote
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire.
~ Robert Southey Quote
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves 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 Quote
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.
~ Robert Southey Quote
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
~ Robert Southey Quote