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

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

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. — 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 those
Who 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 fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries. — Robert Southey

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. — Robert Southey

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. — 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 Antony
Against 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

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. — Robert Southey