Robert Southey Short Quotes

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So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.

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There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

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Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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Ye who dwell at home,
Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

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But what they fought each other for
I could not well make out.

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Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for.

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Yet leaving here a name, I trust,
That will not perish in the dust.

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Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!

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And then they knew the perilous rock,
And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok.

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Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.

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"'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory."

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In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.

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He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.

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The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.

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

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Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!

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

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

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Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

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Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

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A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

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Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries.

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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.

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Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

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What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

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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.

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Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

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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.

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