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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/never-let-a-man-imagine-that-he-can-pursue-a-good-end-by-evil-means/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

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## More by Robert Southey

> [Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/some-voluntary-castaways-there-will-always-be-whom-no-fostering/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/it-has-been-more-wittily-than-charitably-said-that-hell-is-paved-with/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/order-is-the-sanity-of-the-mind-the-health-of-the-body-the-peace-of/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/whatever-strengthens-our-local-attachments-is-favorable-both-to/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/i-have-told-you-of-the-spaniard-who-always-put-on-his-spectacles-when/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/my-days-among-the-dead-are-passed-around-me-i-behold-where-er-these/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/love-is-indestructible-it-s-holy-flame-forever-burneth-from-heaven-it/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/live-as-long-as-you-may-the-first-twenty-years-are-the-longest-half/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/take-away-love-and-not-physical-nature-only-but-the-heart-of-the/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/where-washington-hath-left-his-awful-memory-a-light-for-after-times/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/the-loss-of-a-friend-is-like-that-of-a-limb-time-may-heal-the-anguish/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/three-things-a-wise-man-will-not-trust-the-wind-the-sunshine-of-an/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/she-comes-majestic-with-her-swelling-sails-the-gallant-ship-along-her/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/a-wise-judge-by-the-craft-of-the-law-was-never-seduced-from-its/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

> [Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/let-us-depart-the-universal-sun-confines-not-to-one-land-his-blessed/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

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