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Robert Southey [1774-1843] English

Rank: 105
Poet (with poems)

Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery

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 until his death in 1843.

Friendship, Health, Pet, Sympathy, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.	Pet	101
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.	Sympathy, Time	102
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.	Friendship	103
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.		104
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.		105
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.		106
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?		107
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.		108
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.		109
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.	Health	110
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.		111
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.		112
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.		113
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.		114
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.		115
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.		116

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