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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
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 thoseWho 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
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
I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them inas 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 spokenthe 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
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 failTo find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries. — Robert Southey
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!
— 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
There is healing in the bitter cup.
— Robert Southey
