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" They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven 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... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 456
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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...But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returncth ; Too oft on Earth a troubled guest, At times deceived,...
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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...They perish where they have their birth; But Love is indestructible.101 Again, when Southey writes of the day when "Veeshnoo took a human birth, /Deliverer...
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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...But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth: From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. Too oft on Earth a troubled guest, At times deceiv'd,...
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