Robert South
Quotes by Robert South
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Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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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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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
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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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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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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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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.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
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