Quotes by Robert Blair - Page 1

The common damn'd shun their society.
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Common
Damn
Suicide
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Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
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Courage
Smile
Bears
Whistling
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When it draws near to witching time of night.
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Draws
Night
Night Time
Near
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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
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Nature
Action
Genius
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Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
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Angels
Visits
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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance
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Joy
Pain
Remembrance
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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
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Departed
Painful
Remembrance
Return
Joys
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How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
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Arrows
Blunt
Comparison
Guilt
Stupid
Thy
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Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
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Friendship
Society
Cement
Mysterious
Soul
Sweet
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The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
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Fear
Men
Dread
Firmness
Graves
Shakes
Appalled
Named
Grave
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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.
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Clouds
Pride
Pyramids
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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!
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Beauty
Giving
Heart
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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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Affection
Deformity
Fantastic
Models
Ridiculous
Vicious
Begin
Affectation
Forming
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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.
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Angel
Ghost
Return
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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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Decay
Maturity
Progress
Rational
Sensible
Vegetables
Verge
Begins
Towards
Passed
Soon
Throughout
Vegetable
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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 Blair / Poet
Ease
Long
Years
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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.
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Giving
Long
Numbers
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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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Men
Hands
Speaks Out
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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 Blair / Poet
Men
Fame
Littles
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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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Men
Giving
Mind
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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.
Robert Blair / Poet
Knowledge
Heart
Real
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