Quote

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

Robert Southey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
Biographer
Historian
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Southey
Well
Present
Hereafter
Men
Existence
Portion
Moral
Portions
Faith
Immortality
Christian
Forms
Form
Letters
Character
Necessary
Wells
Intellectual
Slightest

More quotes by Robert Southey

Image
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
Robert Southey
Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Image
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
Robert Southey
Image
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade the parish is his field of active service.
Robert Southey
Image
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
Robert Southey
Image
Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
Robert Southey
Image
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
Robert Southey
Image
They sin who tell us love can die With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.
Robert Southey
Image
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
Robert Southey
Image
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.
Robert Southey
Image
There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
Robert Southey
Image
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Robert Southey
Image
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. But what good came of it at last? Quoth little Peterkin. Why, that I cannot tell, said he, But 'twas a famous victory.
Robert Southey
Image
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey
Image
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
Robert Southey
Image
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
Robert Southey
Image
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
Robert Southey
Image
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.
Robert Southey
Image
Cupid the little greatest god.
Robert Southey
Image
Few people give themselves time to be friends.
Robert Southey