Robert Southey Quotes

• 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

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  Tags in Like, Things, Body, Order, Mind

• 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

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Good, Against, Own, Evil, Man

• It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

  Robert Southey

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  Tags in Good, Place, Intention

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

  Robert Southey

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  Tags in Seems, Judgement, Little

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

  Robert Southey

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Vanity, Sin, Passion

• A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

  Robert Southey

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  Tags in World, Garden, Animal

• 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

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  Tags in Thing, Impossible, Mind

• 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

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Time, Place

• 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

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  Tags in Lie, Words

• 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

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  Tags in Friend

Robert Southey (30)

Birth:	12th August, 1774
Death:	21st March, 1843
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has been long eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse still enjoys some popularity.

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