Quotes by Robert Southey
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A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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.
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.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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.
Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
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