Robert South Quotes

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• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

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  Motivation, Failure, Defeat

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• An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

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  Opportunity, Obstacles, Oppurtunity

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• Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

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  Reading, Useless, Digestion

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• Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

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  Passion, Mind, Drunkenness

  Robert South (1842). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.5

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• The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

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  World, Made, Persons

  Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.413

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• A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

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  True Friend, Heart, Made

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• A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

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  Heart, Men, Life Is

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.315, 1895.

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

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  Argument, Tedium, Simile

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• Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

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  Armor, Innocence, Children Innocence

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.43

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• Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

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  Men, Eden, Wrecks

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• Pain is an outcry of sin.

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  Pain, Sin

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• The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

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  Thankful, Gratitude, Grateful

  "Sermons on Several Occasions".

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• So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

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  Despair, Littles, Limits

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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

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  Mind, Substance, Paradoxical

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 579, Sermons, 1922.

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• He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

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  Kindness, Ungrateful, Doe

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• He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

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  Wise, Temptation, Mind

  Robert South (1877). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions: With the Chief Heads of the Sermons, a Biographical Memoir, and General Index”, p.441

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• Society is built upon trust.

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  Confidence, Built

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.480

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• Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

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  Power, Men, Drawing

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.140

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• 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.

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  Heart, Iron, Guilt

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• Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

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  Abstinence, Reason

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• 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.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.318

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• There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

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  Flower, Secret, Looks

  Robert South (1823). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.326

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• No man's religion ever survives his morals.

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  Men, Religion, Moral

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.422

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• 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.

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  Men, Temptation, Needs

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

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  Wise, Men, Mind

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.171

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