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Bishop Robert South
English
Theologian
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Action
#Man
#Power
#Nature
#Perfection
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#People
#Care
#Idleness
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Will
#Truth
#Credit
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Mind
#Passion
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.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Art
#World
#Spirit
#Mirth
#Appearance
#Disguise
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Innocence
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Man
#Measure
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Discouragement
#Defeat
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Wonder
#Experience
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.
Bishop Robert South,
English
Theologian
#Heart
#Conscience
#Guilt