Robert Blair famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Angel
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
-- Robert Blair

#Friendship #Sweet #Soul
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 Blair

#Angel #Return #Ghost
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
-- Robert Blair

#Stupid #Arrows #Guilt
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 Blair

#Numbers #Long #Giving
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 Blair

#Beauty #Heart #Giving
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
-- Robert Blair

#Ridiculous #Affection #Fantastic
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
-- Robert Blair

#Nature #Genius #Action
When it draws near to witching time of night.
-- Robert Blair

#Night #Night Time #Draws
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.
-- Robert Blair

#Men #Giving #Mind
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance
-- Robert Blair

#Pain #Remembrance #Joy
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

#Years #Long #Ease
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.
-- Robert Blair

#Pride #Pyramids #Clouds
The common damn'd shun their society.
-- Robert Blair

#Suicide #Common #Damn
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.
-- Robert Blair

#Maturity #Vegetables #Progress
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
-- Robert Blair

#Fear #Men #Graves
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
-- Robert Blair

#Courage #Bears #Whistling
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

#Real #Heart #Knowledge
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

#Men #Littles #Fame
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.
-- Robert Blair

#Men #Hands #Speaks Out

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