Robert Blair quotes
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“Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Hugh Blair, Robert Blair (1837). “Advice to Youth: Containing a Compendium of the Duties of Human Life, in Youth and Manhood”, p.90
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“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.8
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“The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair (1804). “The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].”
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“How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.”
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“Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.”
-- Robert BlairSource : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.216
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“Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.37
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“Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.”
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“Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.”
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“When it draws near to witching time of night.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.17
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“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.”
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“Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9
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“How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair (1826). “Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew”, p.21
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“The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.17
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“The common damn'd shun their society.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray (1837). “The Grave and Other Select Poems on the Common Lot of Man”, p.21
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“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.”
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“The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair (1826). “Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew”, p.9
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“Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.13
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“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.”
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“The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.”
-- Robert BlairSource : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.14
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“But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.”
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