Robert Southey Quotes
"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
(Related: Soul, Effect, End, Evil, Man)
"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
- Robert Southey
(Related: Affection, Spirit, Will, Woman)
"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
(Related: First, Mind, Wishing)
"They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Life, Love, Sin, Vanity)
"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
(Related: Time, Friend, Loss, May)
"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."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Health, Peace, Body, Mind, Order, Sanity, Security, State)
"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Love)
"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
(Related: Friendship, Time, Worth)
"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Words)
"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Heaven, Hell, Intentions)
"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Words)
"How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."
- 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
(Related: Life, Lie, Deception, Falsehood, Nothing, Practice, Words)
"Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Life, First, May, Years)
"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Garden, World)