Robert South Quotes

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

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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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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.

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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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Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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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.

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Never enter into a league of friendship with an ungrateful person. That is, plant not thy friendship upon a dunghill. It is too noble a plant for so base a soil.

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There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

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

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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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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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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.

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