Robert Southey Quotes

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

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.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

If you would be pungent, be brief.

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.

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

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

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.

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

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.

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

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

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.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

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.

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.