Quote

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

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
Takes
Salutary
Proper
Independence
Charity
Shame
Pride

More quotes by Robert Southey

Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Image
What will not woman, gentle woman dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Robert Southey
Image
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.
Robert Southey
Image
Cupid the little greatest god.
Robert Southey
Image
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.
Robert Southey
Image
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
Robert Southey
Image
Few people give themselves time to be friends.
Robert Southey
Image
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
Image
There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
Robert Southey
Image
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
Image
And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.
Robert Southey
Image
By writing much, one learns to write well.
Robert Southey
Image
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
Image
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Robert Southey
Image
Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.
Robert Southey
Image
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed if well disposed, only more unhappy.
Robert Southey
Image
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
Robert Southey
Image
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
Robert Southey
Image
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
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