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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• 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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• 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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• By writing much, one learns to write well.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Creative Writing, Wells

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is healing in the bitter cup.

  Robert Southey

  Healing, Affliction, Cups

  Robert Southey “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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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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• I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

  Robert Southey

  Country, Men, Mind

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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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• Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Life, Breathe

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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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• Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

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  Death, Blessed, Quiet

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• Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

  Robert Southey

  Prosperity, Fortune, Endure

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.212

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• There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

  Robert Southey

  Speech, Three Things, Three

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• Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Men, Trials

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.320

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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. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

  Robert Southey

  Peace, Order, Cities

  "The Doctor, Etc".

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• Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

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  Love, Flames, Forever

  Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.282

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• Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Like You, Chickens

  The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

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• The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

  Robert Southey

  Eternity, Unendurable, Graves

  Robert Southey (1799). “Poems”, p.30

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