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Quote by Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with su

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

Other quotes by Robert Southey

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. – Robert Southey

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Time
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. – Robert Southey

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Health
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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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

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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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If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. – Dennis Roth

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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. – Robert S. Lynd

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Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” – Robert Byrne

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