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.
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.
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.
abstinence reason
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
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.
pain sin
Pain is an outcry of sin.
confidence built
Society is built upon trust.
true-friend heart made
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
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.
mind substance paradoxical
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.