Robert Blair Quotes
Robert Blair's verses feel like a kid's bright chant, perfect for anyone craving a simple, uplifting glimpse of youthful courage.
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The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
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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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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.
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How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
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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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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
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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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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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When it draws near to witching time of night.
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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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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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The common damn'd shun their society.