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The Naturalist in a Boarding School

William A. Murrill - 1919 - 300 pages
...which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. Scott For pity melts the mind to love. Dryden They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Robert Southey To know, to esteem, to love — and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling...
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Fundamentals for Daily Living

Robert Seneca Smith - 1921 - 200 pages
...greatest of these is love." Love is the greatest power in the world, because love alone is eternal. 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 returaeth. Southey....
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Cupid "the little greatest god." SouTHEY — Commonplace Book. 4th Series. P. 462. (See also HOLMES) 3 on it. DICKENS — Dombey and Son. Ch. XXIII. The moral system of the universe is like a docum hi Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell. SODTHEY— -Curse of Kehama. Mount...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...here with toil and care, ut the harvest-time of Love is there. Curse of fCeha in.t , Cunt. X. "hey sin who tell us Love can die : With Life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. )oubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move ; )oubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt...
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume 12

1901 - 776 pages
...Southey, have had such premonitions of this truth as that noet hus expressed in the following lines : "They sin who tell us love can die. With life all...In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice In the depths of hell; Earthly those passions of the earth, They perish where they have theh birth; But love...
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The Poetical Works

Robert Southey - 720 pages
...Death alone to others given, This moment hath to him restored The early-lost, the long-deplored. 10. They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other...Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible....
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American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions

Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pages
...more Ecclesiastes than Bhagavad Gita, more of St. Paul's letters to Corinthians than of the Ramayana: They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other...Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth; But Love is indestructible.101...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...same madness, the same stage." — "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." — Anais Nin "They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity . . . Love is indestructible." — Robert Southey "There is no instinct like that of the heart." —...
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Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters

William Arthur Speck, William Allen Speck - 2006 - 352 pages
...something of Southey's to publish in a collection he was editing with the title English Minstrelsy. They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other...Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell. Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth; But Love is indestructible....
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