Robert Southey Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Robert Southey:

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


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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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#7f531c69

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
~Robert Southey


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#d04d1c85

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#e388cb3e

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
~Robert Southey


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#db51e7b5

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#0c78cd0a

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
~Robert Southey


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#94b4ff83

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#9b212992

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
~Robert Southey


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#0a513e8a

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
~Robert Southey


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#3f205dd2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#80262ac7

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#9ff1f1a9

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~Robert Southey


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#eda7ada8

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
~Robert Southey


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#c341c855

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
~Robert Southey


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#6cb2d93f

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
~Robert Southey


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-southey-quotes/#1723844f

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