Quotes by Robert South

“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.”

“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.”

“Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus”

“Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends”

“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.”

“It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people dont care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.”

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

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

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

“Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Folly enlarges mens desires while it lessens their capacities.”

“Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.”

“God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.”

Society is built upon trust.

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

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.

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

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.