Quotes about Robert South

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over,...

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

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but...

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

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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter...

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract;...

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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not...

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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much...

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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but...

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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

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