| 23 Famous Quotes by Robert Southey
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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.”
Cute friendship Quotes |
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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.”
Deception Quotes |
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“While Washington hath left
His awful memory,
A light for after times.”
Washington, george Quotes Source: Ode written during the War with America
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“The solitary Bee
Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,
Flew there on restless wing,
Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.”
Bees Quotes Source: Thalaba (bk. VI, st. 13)
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“Now, motionless and dark, eluded search
Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,
Rose like a shower of fire.”
Fireflies Quotes Source: Madoc (pt. II)
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“The march of intellect.”
Intellect Quotes Source: Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (vol. II, p. 361)
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“. . . make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.”
Abhorrence Quotes Source: Curse of Kehama (VIII, 9)
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“Three things a wise man will not trust,
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith.”
Distrust Quotes Source: Madoc in Azthan (pt. XXIII, l. 51)
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“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.”
Ships Quotes Source: Sonnet XIX
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“Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.”
Affliction Quotes Source: Madoc in Wales (III, l. 176)
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“Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.”
Charity Quotes Source: Soldier's Wife
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“Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the south melting.”
Rainbows Quotes Source: Sonnets--The Evening Rainbow
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“The Satanic school.”
Devil Quotes Source: Vision of Judgment (original preface, III)
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“And so never ending,
But always descending.”
Water Quotes Source: The Cataract of Lodore
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“"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"”
Water Quotes Source: The Cataract of Lodore
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“Midnight, and yet no eye
Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.”
Midnight Quotes Source: Curse of Kehama (pt. I, 1)
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“And as, when all the summer trees are seen
So bright and green,
The Holly leaves a sober hue display
Less bright than they,
But when the bare and wintry woods we see,
What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?”
Holly Quotes Source: The Holly-Tree
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“O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see
The Holly-tree?
The eye that contemplates it well perceives
Its glossy leaves
Ordered by an Intelligence so wise
As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.”
Holly Quotes Source: The Holly-Tree (st. 1)
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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.”
Ambition Quotes |
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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.”
Deceit Quotes |
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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.”
Deception Quotes |
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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.”
Brevity Quotes |
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“It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
Word Quotes |
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Robert Southey Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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