Robert Blair Quotes (18 Quotes)


    Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

    Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.


    The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

    When it draws near to witching time of night.


    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.

    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.

    Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

    O cursed lust of gold when for thy sake, The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come.

    How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

    Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.


    Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

    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.

    It's important to get on hands and knees and know what work is. It's about taking pride in their school and place where they live.

    The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

    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.

    Beauty thou pretty plaything dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before.


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