All Robert South Quotes
- 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
- Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. Experience
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Any
- Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. Drunkenness
- Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. Credit
- Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. Great
- Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. Communicate
- Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. Ear
- He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former… Finds