"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an……" — Robert South
"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."
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33 Quotes by Robert South
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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret…
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not…
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the…
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives…
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that…
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and…
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to…
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An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
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He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's…
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just…
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