Robert South Quotes (19 Quotes)

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.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart

Deeds always overbalance and downright practice speaks more plainly than the fairest profession.

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.

A pandemic by definition is everywhere. You can't expect Uncle Sam to come in and help. It won't be like a hurricane. Every community will have to fend for themselves. There is no cavalry.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

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.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

In all 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, as he proposed to himself in the expectation.

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.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind But to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.

Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.

We are recommending that every family have a family plan. The more informed and prepared people are by having a family plan, they do better. You know what to expect.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.