Robert Southey Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

  Robert Southey

  Perseverance, Memories, Exercise

• 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.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Character, Eye

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157

• A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

  Robert Southey

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  Robert Southey (1856). “Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey”, p.258

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