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Robert Southey Quotes

«It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Ambition, Hope | Keywords: aspirations, quenched, sparks
«They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Sin
«There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken: the manner, the place, and the time»
«Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: idol, sublimely
«Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: come home, curses, roost
«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.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: resolute, wishing
«A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness»
«Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so»
«Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: dedicated, nook, nooks
«It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.»

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