Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . .… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
