All Robert Southey Quotes
- 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:… Air
- There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time. Considered
- It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the… Accidental
- The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not… Death
- From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it… Among
- There is another world for all that live and move-a better one! All
- "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty… Cried
- Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. Arch
- In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. Age
- There is healing in the bitter cup. Affliction
- As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. Evil
- Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. Burneth
- Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds… Beam
- She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their… Along
- A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness Conduces
- What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Blockheads
- If you would be pungent, be brief. Brief
- It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. Absolute
- The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. Bee
- One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. Another Necessary
- They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… Another Necessary
- O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so… Atheist
- And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But… All
- 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. Air
- For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities,… Ashamed