I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire, – the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

— Robert Southey

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In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

— Robert Southey

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

— Robert Southey

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

— Robert Southey

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

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

— Robert Southey

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

— Robert Southey

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

— Robert Southey

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

— Robert Southey

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

— Robert Southey

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

— 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.

— Robert Southey

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

— Robert Southey

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

— Robert Southey

Cupid “the little greatest god.”

— Robert Southey

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

— Robert Southey

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.

— Robert Southey

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

If you would be pungent, be brief.

— Robert Southey

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

— Robert Southey

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.

— Robert Southey
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