Robert Southey Quotes about Life

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

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

Life, Lying, Practice

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

Robert Southey

Love, Life, Breathe

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

Robert Southey

Life, Passion, Ambition

Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.583

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.

Robert Southey

Life, Fall, Dark

"Thalaba the Destroyer". Book by Robert Southey, 1801.

They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

Robert Southey

Life, Passion, Love Is

"The Curse of Kehama". Book by Robert Southey, 1810.