There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of… — Robert South Flower Copy Share Image
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South Action Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Mind Copy Share Image
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast:… — Robert South Be grateful Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Eagerness Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of… — Robert South Come up Copy Share Image
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain… — Robert South Character Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them,… — Robert South Fame Copy Share Image
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest… — Robert South Flames Copy Share Image
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand;… — Robert South Doe Copy Share Image
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. — Robert South Father Copy Share Image
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs… — Robert South Earnest Copy Share Image
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but… — Robert South Appearance Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not… — Robert South Eagerness Copy Share Image
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only… — Robert South Bones Copy Share Image
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion. — Robert South Digestion Copy Share Image
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South Anticipation Copy Share Image
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. — Robert South Debt Copy Share Image
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South Argument Copy Share Image
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which… — Robert South Conscience Copy Share Image
