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Quote by Robert Southey
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, th

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

Other quotes by Robert Southey

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. – Robert Southey

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

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Brevity
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Robert Southey
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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. – William Shakespeare

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Brevity

Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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Brevity

Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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Brevity

If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Brevity

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Grief is light that is capable of counsel. – Proverb

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