Robert Southey's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Poet
Nation: English
Biography of Robert Southey
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Tags: Friendship, Place, TimeAll deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Tags: Lie, Life, WordsThe loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Tags: Friend, May, TimeTo 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.
Tags: Impossible, Mind, WishThey sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Tags: Die, Life, LoveNever 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.
Tags: End, Evil, GoodWhat will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Tags: Her, Strong, WomanHow little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Tags: Frame, Judgments, SeemsIt has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Tags: Good, Hell, SaidOrder 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.
Tags: Health, Mind, PeaceAffliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Tags: God, Good, YoungIf you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Tags: Burn, Deeper, WordsIt is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Tags: Burn, Deeper, WordsLive as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Tags: Half, Life, MayNot where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Tags: Breathe, Die, Love