Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Robert South
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Robert South
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 well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Robert South
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Robert South
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South
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Type: Clergyman
Nationality: English
Born: 1634
Died: 1716
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