Author: Robert Southey

Quotes

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

- Robert Southey

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.

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.

- Robert Southey

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

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

- Robert Southey

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.

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.

- Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

- Robert Southey

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

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

- Robert Southey

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

- Robert Southey

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.

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.

- Robert Southey

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

- Robert Southey

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