Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
Robert SoutheyThat charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
Robert SoutheyThou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
Robert SoutheyThe disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.
Robert SoutheyWhatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.
Robert Southey