Robert Southey Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Affliction is not sent in vain from the good God who chastens those that he loves.	Adversity
2	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. With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude. My thoughts are with the Dead; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears; And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind. My hopes are with the Dead; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.	Ancestor
3	How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.	Appearance
4	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.	Aspiration
5	If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.	Brevity
6	How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.	Judgement
7	It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.	Words
8	She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favoring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.	Sea
9	Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.	Sleep
10	Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.	Rainbow

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