Robert South famous quotes

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

#Failure #Defeat #Discouragement

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
-- Robert South

#Thankful #Grateful #Debt

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

#Power #Men #Drawing

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
-- Robert South

#Passion #Mind #Drunkenness

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
-- Robert South

#True Friend #Heart #Made

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

#Mind #Substance #Paradoxical

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

#Paradise #Rubbish #Athens

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

#Men #Desire #Capacity

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

#Father #Mind #Purpose

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

#Argument #Tedium #Simile

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

#Easter #Men #Dresses

No man's religion ever survives his morals.
-- Robert South

#Men #Religion #Moral

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

#Christian #Men #Good Man

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

#World #Made #Persons

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

#Heart #Men #Life Is

Society is built upon trust.
-- Robert South

#Confidence

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
-- Robert South

#Abstinence #Reason

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
-- Robert South

#Wise #Temptation #Mind

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

#Men #Expectations #Half

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
-- Robert South

#Opportunity #Men #Names

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

#Heart #Iron #Guilt

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

#Men #Temptation #Needs

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

#Wise #Men #Mind

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
-- Robert South

#Opportunity #Obstacles

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
-- Robert South

#Despair #Littles #Limits

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

#Anger #Hatred

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
-- Robert South

#Armor #Innocence

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
-- Robert South

#Reading #Useless #Digestion

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

#Imagination #Fancy #Judgment

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
-- Robert South

#Flower #Secret #Looks

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

#Art #Laughter #World