Robert South
Robert South
Robert Southwas an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
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.
thankful grateful debt
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
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.
father mind purpose
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
athens paradise rubbish
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
despair littles limits
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
easter men dresses
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.
delivered lies-and-lying truth
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.