Robert Southey: Quotes about time

Robert Southey was British poet. Explore interesting quotes on time.

Robert Southey: 102 quotes2 likes

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”

Ode written during the War with America (1814).

“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.
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It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest-time of love is there.”

Canto X, st. 10.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)

“No sooner was the Baltic open to our merchants, than corn was bought up there for importation into England; at the same time the continent was glutted with English goods, which, because the supply greatly exceeded the demand, were sold at less than their prime cost, and upon which the foreign governments soon laid new duties...to prevent the ruin of their own manufactures. This might have been a salutary lesson, if nations were ever rendered wise by experience; it might have taught us that, however willing one part of this nation might be to see the other ruined by the free admission of foreign grain, foreign governments would never consent to have their fabrics destroyed by the unrestricted introduction of British goods. It is a sound maxim in politics, whatever it may be in morals, that charity begins at home.”

'On the Corn-Laws', The Quarterly Review, Vol. LI. (March & June 1834), p. 231
1830s