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Robert South Quotes

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Idleness is both a great sin, and the cause of many more  (Robert South Quotes) The soul and spirit that animates and keeps up society is mutual trust  (Robert South Quotes) There is an evil spirit continually active and intent to seduce  (Robert South Quotes) Give any one fortune, and he shall be thought a wise man  (Robert South Quotes) It is not the back, but the heart, that must bleed for sin  (Robert South Quotes) He that despairs measures providence by his own little contracted model  (Robert South Quotes) Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus  (Robert South Quotes) Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument  (Robert South Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) There are two functions of the soul, contemplation and practice, according to the general division of objects; some of which only entertain our speculations, other employ our actions  (Robert South Quotes) Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature  (Robert South Quotes) If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives  (Robert South Quotes) 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  (Robert South Quotes) Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it  (Robert South Quotes) 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  (Robert South Quotes) 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  (Robert South Quotes) Modesty is a kind of shame or bashfulness proceeding from the sense a man has of his own defects compared with the perfections of him whom be comes before  (Robert South Quotes) The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature  (Robert South Quotes) As by flattery a man opens his bosom to his mortal enemy; so by detraction and slander he shuts the same to his best friends  (Robert South Quotes) No man ever offended his own conscience but first or last it was revenged upon him for it  (Robert South Quotes) Ill nature consists of a proneness to do ill turns, attended with a secret joy upon the sight of any mischief that befalls another  (Robert South Quotes) Charity commands us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend  (Robert South Quotes) He who has a soul wholly devoid of gratitude should set his soul to learn of his body; for all the parts of that minister to one another  (Robert South Quotes) There is hardly any noble quantity or endowment of the mind but must own temperance, either for its parent or its nurse  (Robert South Quotes) Faith must be not only living, but lively, too; it must be brightened and stirred up by a particular exercise of those virtues specifically requisite to a due performance of duty  (Robert South Quotes) They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar  (Robert South Quotes) It is fit and necessary that some persons in the world should be in love with a splendid servitude  (Robert South Quotes) Every man living shall assuredly meet with an hour of temptation, a certain critical hour, which shall more especially try what mettle his heart is made of  (Robert South Quotes)
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