Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Southey
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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 a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.
Few people give themselves time to be friends.
Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!
The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
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, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.
Happy those
Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
Taught wisdom to mankind!
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
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 judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.
By writing much, one learns to write well.
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
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: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries.
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.
Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.
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 surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.
My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.
Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.
There is healing in the bitter cup.
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
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 your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
If you would be pungent, be brief.
They sin who tell us Love can die:
With life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity,
In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell,
Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
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.
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
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.
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