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Robert Southey Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the english poet Robert Southey on topics like words, deeper, condensed

  • 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 on anguish
    6
  • What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

    — Robert Southey on love
    4
  • Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

    — Robert Southey on life
    4
  • How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

    — Robert Southey on appearance
    2
  • 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 on friends
    2
  • 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 on organization
    1
  • It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

    — Robert Southey on words
    1
  • If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

    — Robert Southey on burn
    0
  • It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

    — Robert Southey on burn
    0
  • Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme;

    to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

    — Robert Southey on ambition
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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 on effect
    0
  • I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

    — Robert Southey on appearance
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  • About Robert Southey

    Name Robert Southey
    Quotes 17 quotations
    Nationality English
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    About Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity. Moreover, he was a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, historian and biographer.
    Top topics words, deeper, condensed, burn, sunbeams
  • It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

    He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

    — Robert Southey on dreams
    0
  • If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

    — Robert Southey on brevity
    0
  • 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 on deception
    0
  • Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

    — Robert Southey on half
    0
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  • Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

    — Robert Southey on justice
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  • Related Topics

    • anguish
    • friend
    • heal
    • limb
    • loss
    • repaired
    • time
    • wound
    • love
    • woman
    • gentle
    • dare
    • strong
    • affection
    • stirs
    • spirit
    • life
    • breathe
    • live
    • die
    • appearance
    • frame
    • hasty
    • judgments
    • friends
    • distance
    • place
    • lapse
    • lessen
    • friendship
    • persuaded
    • worth
    • organization
    • order
    • sanity

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