Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of … - Robert Southey
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of …
- Robert Southey
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the ch… - Robert Southey
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the ch…
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. - Robert Southey
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. - Robert Southey
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. - Robert Southey
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. - Robert Southey
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature … - Robert Southey
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature …
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. - Robert Southey
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Few people give themselves time to be friends. - Robert Southey
Few people give themselves time to be friends.
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