Robert Southey Mind Quotations

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.