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Quotations By Robert Southey


Ambition
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Children
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Judgment
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Words
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. -- Robert Southey