Quotes from Robert Southey

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

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

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.

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.

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

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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

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

The field of glory," said he, "is a large one, and was never more open to any one than at this moment to you. Rome would throw open her gates and receive you as her deliverer; and the pope would owe his restoration to a heretic.

Well," said he, as he left the ELEPHANT, "I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged. Never mind: let them!

With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, And new-born infant, died. But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. They say it was a shocking sight, After the field was won, For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory.

There is oppression in the world below: Earth groans beneath the yoke; yea, in her woe, She asks if the Avenger's eye is blind? Awake, O Lord, awake! Too long thy vengeance sleepeth. Holy One! Put thou thy terrors on for mercy's sake, And strike the blow, in justice to mankind!

Indragostita de propria-i nenorocire

A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man! the rest a waste, Rocks, deserts, frozen seas and burning sands, Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death. Such is earth's melancholy map! But, far More sad, this earth is a true map of man.

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

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

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.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

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