"Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless……" — Robert South
"Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion."
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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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More Digestion Quotes
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
— Samuel Butler
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often…
— Unknown Author
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with…
— Pope Leo XII
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and…
— Susan Sontag
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
— Harriet Martineau
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the…
— John Henry Newman
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
— John Dryden
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
— Walter Scott
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted;…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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