Robert Southey Quotes
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The pulpit is the clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
[Preaching]
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The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful help-meet in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
[Love]
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There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken, - the manner, the place, and the time.
[Speech]
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There is a magic in that little word, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.
[Home]
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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 wanting. - It may be soured by misfortune, corrupted by wealth, blighted by neediness, and lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observantly distil it out.
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They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
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Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
[Weariness]
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To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
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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 morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.
[War]
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What a world were this; how unendurable its weight, if they whom death had sundered did not meet again?
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What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
[Reading]
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
[Women]
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While actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.
[Charity]
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Whoever has tasted the breath of morning, knows that the most invigorating and delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed, though it is the evident intention of nature that we should profit by them.
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Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.
[Pleasure]
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