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Robert South [1634-1716] English

Rank: 102
Clergyman

Robert South was an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching.

Anger, Easter, Famous, Great, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.		101
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.		102
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.	Great	103
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.		104
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.		105
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.		106
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.		107
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.		108
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.		109
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.		110
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.		111
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.		112
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.	Famous, Wisdom	113
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.		114
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.	Anger	115
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.		116
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.		117
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.		118
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.	Easter	119
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.		120
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.		121
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.		122
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.		123
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.		124
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.		125
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.		126

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