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
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
O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
~ Robert Southey Quote
How does the Water Come down at Lodore?
~ Robert Southey Quote
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
~ Robert Southey Quote
What will not woman, gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
~ Robert Southey Quote
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
~ Robert Southey Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
~ Robert Southey Quote
And so never ending, But always descending.
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