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Letter "R" » Robert Blair Quotes
«Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance»
«Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
«How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
«When it draws near to witching time of night.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
«Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
«See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
«Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
«The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,/ Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.»
«Its visits, / Like those of angels, short, and far between.»
«Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.»
Author: Robert Blair
(Poet)
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