Religion Quotes by Robert Southey

8 Religion quotes by Robert Southey

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Robert Southey’s eight verses on religion blend his poetic flair with spiritual contemplation. The brief selection captures the gentle cadence of his thought, offering readers a taste of how his literary voice engages with faith.

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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

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The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

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There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be…

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Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite…

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Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed,…

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Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate,…

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War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of…

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The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals…

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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…

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

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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. As the…

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Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and…

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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…

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Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;…

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Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

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Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be…

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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

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She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at…

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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

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Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the…

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