"The grateful person, being still the most severe……" — Robert South
"The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts."
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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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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and…
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that…
— Francis Quarles
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
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It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and…
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment,…
— Ambrose
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The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is…
— Pope Francis
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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who…
— Asa Gray
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