"What blockheads are those wise persons, who think……" — Robert Southey
"What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads."
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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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More Blockheads Quotes
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians…
— Martin Luther
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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries…
— Prince William
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an…
— H.G. Wells
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
— Warren Buffett
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Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his…
— Alexander Pope
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The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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