Quotes of Robert Southey - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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

“ Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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

“ 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

“ Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. ”

- Robert Southey

“ The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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

“ Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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 tempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyments: 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

“ 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

“ The Satanic school. ”

- Robert Southey

“ O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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

“ The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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 tempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyments: 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

“ 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

“ 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 tempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyments: 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

“ How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven. ”

- Robert Southey

“ 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

“ Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ”

- Robert Southey
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