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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.
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
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Robert South
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
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
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Robert South
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Robert South
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
Robert South
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
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
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.
Robert South
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
Robert South
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
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
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
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
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Robert South
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South
Folly enlarges men’s desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
A man’s life is an appendix to his heart.
Robert South
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
Robert South
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!
Robert South
Pain is an outcry of sin.
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.
Robert South
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.
Robert South
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.
Robert South
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.
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