Robert South quotes

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. (Robert South)

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.

Robert South

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Robert South

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Robert South

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Robert South

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

Robert South

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Robert South

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Robert South

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Robert South

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. (Robert South)

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

Robert South

Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.

Robert South

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

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

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Robert South

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.

Robert South

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Robert South

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Robert South

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

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)

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

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

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Robert South

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

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Occupation: English Clergyman
Born: September 4, 1634
Died: July 8, 1716
Quotes count: 25
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