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The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
— Robert Southey
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
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.
— Robert Southey
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
— Robert Southey
Happy thoseWho in the after-days shall live, when Time
Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
Taught wisdom to mankind! — Robert Southey
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
— Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief.
— Robert Southey
Ye who dwell at home,Ye do not know the terrors of the main. — Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so.
— 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.
— Robert Southey
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
— Robert Southey
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
— Robert Southey
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
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) — Robert Southey
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never failTo find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries. — Robert Southey
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.
— Robert Southey
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
— Robert Southey
And when my own Mark AntonyAgainst young Caesar strove,
And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
The cause was,
all for love. — Robert Southey
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
— Robert Southey
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
— Robert Southey
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
— Robert Southey
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."
— Robert Southey
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
— Robert Southey
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
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.
— Robert Southey
