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Type: Clergyman Quotes Category: English Clergyman Quotes Year of Birth: 1634 Year of Death: 1716 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Robert South Related Authors: Thomas Fuller Stephen Gardiner Sydney Smith Joseph Butler William Ralph Inge William Law Frederick William Robertson John Still |
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Robert South An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. Robert South Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. Robert South Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. Robert South Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. Robert South God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. Robert South 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. Robert South In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation. Robert South 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. Robert South 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. Robert South 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. Robert South Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. Robert South Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. Robert South Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. Robert South Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Robert South Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. Robert South The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert South 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. Robert South |
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