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

My name is Death: the last best friend am I. — Robert Southey

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. — 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

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book. — Robert Southey

Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends. — 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

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they. — Caroline Anne 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

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on. — Robert Southey

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

Few people give themselves time to be friends. — Robert Southey

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. — Robert Southey

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities. — Robert Southey

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. — Robert Southey

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. — Robert Southey

Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me. — Robert Southey

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season. — Caroline Anne Southey

By writing much, one learns to write well. — Robert Southey

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root! — Robert Southey

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

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. — Robert Southey

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey

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

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach. — Robert Southey

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. — Robert Southey

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

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. — Robert Southey

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
annoy others. — Robert Southey

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken
the manner, the place and the time. — Robert Southey

The laws are with us, and God on our side. — Robert Southey

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. — Robert Southey

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. — Robert Southey

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best. — 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

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

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength. — 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

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

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! — 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

There is healing in the bitter cup. — Robert Southey

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