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
Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father… — 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
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be… — 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
