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

About Robert Southey

Robert Southeywas an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions.

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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

It is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774-1843)

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 romantic poet (1774-1843)