"If you would be pungent, be brief." — Robert Southey
"If you would be pungent, be brief."
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Robert Southey
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69 Quotes by Robert Southey
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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never…
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks…
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Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and…
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And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth…
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By writing much, one learns to write well.
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I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this…
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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of…
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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the…
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used…
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As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine…
— Juvenal
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly…
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
— Susan Faludi
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to…
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