Top 7 Quotes by Sydney Thompson Dobell

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

Shrines, Temples, Blast

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Opportunity, Judgment, Embrace

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Voice, Needs, Speak

Sydney Thompson Dobell (1860). “Poems. Author's ed”, p.217

The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Success, Mean, Self

He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above. For why to live again if not to meet? And why to meet if not to meet in love? And why in love if not in that dear love of old?

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Life, Sweet, Past

Sydney Thompson Dobell, “To A Friend In Bereavement”