Quotes by Southey, Robert




Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and one of the so-called "Lake Poets". Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries such as William Wordsworth, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity. Moreover, he was a literary scholar, writing a number of biographical studies of historical interest, notably on the life and works of John Bunyan and John Wesley..

"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

Southey, Robert on deception
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"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."

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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

Southey, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing."

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

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

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

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"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."

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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

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

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

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