Robert Southey Quotes about Home

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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Robert Southey

Home, Magic In The World, Circles

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

Robert Southey

Home, Like You, Chickens

The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Robert Southey

Home, Terror, Knows

Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.227

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

Robert Southey Quotes about Home

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