Robert South
Robert South
Robert Southwas an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Robert South quotes about
arriving birds hemisphere nervous people start
It will probably come into the hemisphere by way of migrating birds. People are going to get really nervous when the birds start arriving here.
deeds downright practice speaks
Deeds always overbalance; and downright practice speaks more plainly than the fairest profession.
community definition expect pandemic sam uncle
A pandemic by definition is everywhere. You can't expect Uncle Sam to come in and help. It won't be like a hurricane. Every community will have to fend for themselves. There is no cavalry.
failure defeat discouragement
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
thankful grateful debt
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
power men drawing
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
kindness ungrateful doe
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.
heart flames ungrateful
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
imagination fancy judgment
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.
reading useless digestion
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
heart iron guilt
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.
abstinence reason
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
flower secret looks
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.
perfection silence noble
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.