All Robert South Quotes
- 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… Flower
- Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. Defeat
- 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… Appearance
- Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. Action
- 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… All
- 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… Better
- 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… Both
- 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… Earnest
- Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. Communicate
- An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity Inspirational
- He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. Anticipation
- Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. Anger
- Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. Adorns
- Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion. 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… Contract
- 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… Acquired
- He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop. Devil
- Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. Abstinence
- The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Begins
- An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. Adam
- Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. Capacities
- God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. Afflicts
- Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Argument
- 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… Conscience
- The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. Confesses