Robert Blair Quotes

"Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Remembrance)

"When it draws near to witching time of night."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Time, Night)

"The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Men, Nature, Firmness, Grave)

"Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Nature, Genius, Action)

"Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Society, Life, Soul)

"Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Affectation, Being, End)

"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
(Related: Progress, Maturity, World)

"How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Guilt)