Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
