Robert Southey citáty

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„Dejte mi pokoj, kde je každý kout věnován knize.“

„Žádná vzdálenost ani časový odstup nemůže oslabit přátelství těch, kdo jsou navzájem přesvědčeni o své hodnotě.“

„Se slovy to bývá jako se slunečními paprsky : čím jsou víc soustředěné, tím víc pálí.“

„Ztráta přítele je jako ztráta končetiny; čas může zahojit bolestnou ránu, ale ztrátu nelze napravit.“

„Ať žijeme jakkoli dlouho, prvních dvacet let je nejdelší polovinou života.“

“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”

“Somebody has been sitting in my chair!”

“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.”

“At this good news, so great
The Devil's pleasure grew,
That, with a joyful swish, he rent
The hole where his tail came through.”

“'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.”

“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

“Will ye believe
The wonders of the ocean? how its shoals
Sprang from the wave, like flashing light;.. took wing,
And, twinkling with a silver glitterance,
Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were they
To sight less wondrous than the tribe who swam,
Following like fowlers, with uplifted eye,
Their falling quarry:.. language cannot paint
Their splendid tints! though in blue ocean seen,
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,
In all its rich variety of shades,
Suffus'd with glowing gold.”

“Thou hast confessions to listen,
And bells to christen,
And altars and dolls to dress;
And fools to coax,
And sinners to hoax,
And beads and bones to bless;
And great pardons to sell
For those who pay well,
And small ones for those who pay less.”

“But what they fought each other for
I could not well make out.”

“From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little, snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.”

“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”

“My days among the Dead are past;
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.”

“How, then, was the Devil dressed?
Oh! he was in his Sunday's best;
His coat was red, and his breeches were blue,
And there was a hole where his tail came through.”

“Every body is a critic.”

“Agreed to differ.”

“The Satanic school.”

“The march of intellect.”

“A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs. It is an accident. ”

“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.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”