Famous Quotes / Robert Southey
Robert Southey: "Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself."
Authority | Body | Conscience | Impairs |
Increases | Innocent | Itself | Judge |
Lawfulness | Mind | Obscures | Over |
Pleasure | Reason | Relish | Rule |
Sense | Short | Spiritual | Strength |
Take | Takes | Tenderness | Things |
Unlawfulness | Weakens | Whatever | Your |