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Robert South
English
Clergyman
About the author
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,
English
Clergyman
#Work
#Imagination
#Judgment
#Fancy
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Mind
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Men
#Mind
#Speech
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,
English
Clergyman
#Words
#World
#Men
#Wisdom
#Fame
#Famous
#Greece
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Nothing
#Argument
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Right
#People
#Problems
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Pleasure
#Novelty
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Heart
#Modesty
#Storms
#Loquacity
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,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Needs
#Temptation
#Measure
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,
English
Clergyman
#God
#Men
#Religion
#Satisfaction
#Dress
#Conscience
#Credit
#Measure
#Easter
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#God
#May
#Purpose
#Mind
#Father
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Men
#Folly
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Discouragement
#Defeat
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Anger
#Hatred
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Reason
#Abstinence
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,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Pleasure
#Expectation
#Possession
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South,
English
Clergyman
#Paradise
#Athens