12 Quotations by Robert Southey
- 1. Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
- 2. All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falseh ...
- 3. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great o ...
- 4. How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
- 5. I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that th ...
- 6. If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condens ...
- 7. It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks ...
- 8. No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuade ...
- 9. Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
- 10. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the ...
- 11. What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
- 12. Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens ...
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