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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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• Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Heart, Would Be

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.161

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

  Robert Southey

  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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• 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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• 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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• Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
  As through the word he wends;
  On every stage, from youth to age,
  Still discontent attends.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.118

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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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• 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 is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Contentment, Absolutes

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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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• 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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• Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

  Robert Southey

  Freedom, Men, Mountain

  Robert Southey (1857). “Joan of Arc, Ballads, Lyrics, and Minor Poems”, p.119

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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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• There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

  Robert Southey

  Men, House, Physicians

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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: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Ocean, Dark

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1884). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir ...”

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• I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
  as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
  annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Eye, Littles, Annoying

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• I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

  Robert Southey

  Philosophy, Drawing, Fire

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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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• Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; 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

  Spiritual, Judging, Over You

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

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• A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Stubborn, Littles

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Doctor, &c. ...”, p.14

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• In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

  Robert Southey

  Age, Youth, Aging

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)

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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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• 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.

  Robert Southey

  Death, Blessed, Quiet

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• The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

  Robert Southey

  Humble, Progress Of Society, Six

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.31

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