Robert South
Robert South
Robert Southwas an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
conceal given men ordinary sort
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
men religion moral
No man's religion ever survives his morals.
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.
christian men good-man
For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.
heart men life-is
A man's life is an appendix to his heart.
men eden looks
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!
wise men mind
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
men temptation needs
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
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.
men desire capacity
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
power men drawing
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
wise wisdom men
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
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.