Robert Southey

Quotes

• “If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
• “Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”
• “"You are old, Father William." the young man cried,"The few locks which are left you are grey;You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:Now tell me the reason, I pray."”
• “"In my days of youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."”
• “It was a summer evening,Old Kaspar's work was done,And he before his cottage doorWas sitting in the sun,And by him sported on the greenHis little grandchild Wilhelmine.”
• “He came to ask what he had found,That was so large, and smooth, and round.”

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