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Robert South Quotes


God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. Robert South Afflicts 80
Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it. Robert South anger 78
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. Robert South Ear 72
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Robert South Argument 70
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 Wisdom 64
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 Religion 54
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 Against 49
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 Eagerness 44
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert South Begins 44
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. Robert South Adam 37
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. Robert South Uncategorized 36
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. Robert South Communicate 34
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. Robert South Novelty 33
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 25

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