Robert Southey Quotes

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• There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
• 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…
• 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…
• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe,…
• And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I…
• By writing much, one learns to write well.
• I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord…
• Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
• Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
• 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…
• My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
• Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures…
• Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and…
• Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
• What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
• Few people give themselves time to be friends.
• Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so.
• They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love…
• 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 friends…
• From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see…

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