Robert South
Robert South
Robert Southwas an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
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.
opportunity men names
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
men expectations half
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
art laughter world
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
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.
anger hatred transient
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
armor innocence children-innocence
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
men desire capacity
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
athens paradise rubbish
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
mind substance paradoxical
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
abstinence reason
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
wise temptation mind
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
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.