Robert South Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Permission, Impossibilities

• Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

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  Tags in Surprise, Wonder

• Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

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  Tags in Credit, Delivered

• Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

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• Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

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  Tags in Polished, Innocence

• Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.

  Robert South

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  Tags in Highest, Action

• 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

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  Tags in Disguise, Appearance

• If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

  Robert South

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  Tags in Truer, Measure

• 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.

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  Tags in Rust, Eats

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

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• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Men, Easter

• 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.

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  Tags in Far, Greater

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

  Robert South

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  Tags in Hatred

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

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  Topics in Father, God

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

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  Tags in Mind, Substance

• 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.

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  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Men

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

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  Tags in Prove, Argument

• Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

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  Tags in Parents, Pleasure

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

  Robert South

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  Tags in Men, Mind

• 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.

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  Tags in Against, Needs, Temptation

Robert South (26)

Birth:	4th September, 1634
Death:	8th July, 1716
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman

About

Robert South was an English churchman, known for his combative preaching. He was the son of Robert South, a London merchant, and Elizabeth Berry. He was born at Hackney, Middlesex, and was educated at Westminster School under Richard Busby, and at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 11 December 1651.

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