44 ordspråk av Robert Southey
Robert Southey
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends
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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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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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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.
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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
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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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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart
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Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.
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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.
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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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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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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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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure
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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure
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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.
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