Robert Southey Quotes
Most popular Robert Southey Quotes
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare, when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Would you know whether the tendency of a book is good or evil, examine in what state of mind you lay it down.
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity . . . Love is indestructible.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
