A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the… — 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
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin.… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself,… — 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… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. — Robert Southey Copy Share
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
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey Copy Share
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
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
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at… — Robert Southey Copy Share
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. — Robert Southey Copy Share
Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the… — Robert Southey Copy Share
