"A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom……" — Robert Southey
"A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness"
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Robert Southey
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69 Quotes by Robert Southey
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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never…
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks…
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Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and…
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And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth…
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By writing much, one learns to write well.
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I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this…
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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of…
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My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
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Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the…
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