No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey More Quotes by Robert Southey More Quotes From Robert Southey Happy those Robert Southey taught wisdom years 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. Robert Southey good-man wise men I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in Robert Southey annoying eye littles The laws are with us, and God on our side. Robert Southey law sides Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. Robert Southey lovely rainbow sky As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. Robert Southey necessary-evil evil From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry. Robert Southey lakes sleep running The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again! Robert Southey headstone weight world In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths. Robert Southey dark life fall For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them. Robert Southey poet personality writing It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust. Robert Southey mind men country From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on. Robert Southey devil bed looks Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! Robert Southey awful light memories In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. Robert Southey aging youth age Few people give themselves time to be friends. Robert Southey loyalty giving people She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze. Robert Southey flirting play way They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there. Robert Southey passion love-is life My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. Robert Southey failure eye mind And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree? Robert Southey hollies summer tree What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Robert Southey reading wise children
