Course of life Quote by 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.” quote by Robert Southey — Download Open image

“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

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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 attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as…

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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…

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Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;…

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Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

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Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

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