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• Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.

  Robert Southey

  Heaven, Enemy, Earth

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Complete in One Volume”, p.430

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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Locks

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

  Robert Southey

  Desire, World, Longing

  Robert Southey (1849). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey”, p.284

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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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• 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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• 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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• War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

  Robert Southey

  War, Army, Evil

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Personality, Poet

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1853). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.226

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• From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

  Robert Southey

  Devil, Bed, Looks

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1860). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.77

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cupid "the little greatest god."

  Robert Southey

  Life, Littles, Cupid

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

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