Robert South quotes

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. (Robert South)
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. View quote
Robert South
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. View quote
Robert South
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. View quote
Robert South
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. View quote
Robert South
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. View quote
Robert South
A man's life is an appendix to his heart. View quote
Robert South
For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called. View quote
Robert South
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. View quote
Robert South
No man's religion ever survives his morals. View quote
Robert South
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. (Robert South)
There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. View quote
Robert South
Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies. View quote
Robert South
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. View quote
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. View quote
Robert South
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. View quote
Robert South
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. View quote
Robert South
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. View quote
Robert South
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. View quote
Robert South
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. View quote
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)
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. View quote
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. View quote
Robert South
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. View quote
Robert South
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. View quote
Robert South