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Robert South Quotes

Robert South Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Robert South
Type:
Clergy
Nationality:
English
Birth year:
1634

  • 1
    Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 2
    An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 3
    Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 4
    Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 5
    Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 6
    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-SouthRobert South
  • 7
    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. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 8
    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-SouthRobert South
  • 9
    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-SouthRobert South
  • 10
    Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 11
    Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 12
    Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 13
    The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert-SouthRobert South
  • 14
    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-SouthRobert South