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Robert Southey
English
Poet
About the author
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#God
#Man
#Affliction
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.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#End
#Man
#Evil
#Effect
#Soul
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Will
#Spirit
#Woman
#Affection
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.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#First
#Mind
#Wishing
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Sin
#Vanity
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.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Time
#May
#Friend
#Loss
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.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Security
#State
#Peace
#Mind
#Body
#Order
#Health
#Sanity
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Love
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Time
#Worth
#Friendship
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Words
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Hell
#Heaven
#Intentions
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Words
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Life
#Words
#Nothing
#Practice
#Lie
#Falsehood
#Deception
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#Life
#Years
#May
#First
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey,
English
Poet
#World
#Garden