Robert Southey Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: August 12, 1774 - March 21, 1843
Birthday: August 12
Death: March 21
Whatever 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.
source: Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157
topic: Home, Character, Eye, Topography, Birthplace, Birth Place, Native Land
