155 Quotes by Robert Southey

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

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