"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure." — Robert South

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."

— Robert South

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33 Quotes by Robert South

Robert South has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret…
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not…
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the…
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives…
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that…
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and…
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to…
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

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