Robert Southey Life Quotations

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

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.

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths.