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  • The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

    World   Made   Persons  
    Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.413
  • Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

    Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.433
  • 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.

    Men   Temptation   Needs  
  • Pain is an outcry of sin.

    Pain   Sin  
  • Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

    Men   Desire   Capacity  
    Robert South (1842). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.370
  • Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

  • An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

    'Sermons' vol. 1, no. 2
  • Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

  • Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

    ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.33
  • 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.

    Flower   Secret   Looks  
    Robert South (1823). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.326
  • 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.

    ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.319
  • 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!

    Men   Eden   Wrecks  
  • 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.

    Art   Laughter   World  
    ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.495
  • The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

    "Sermons on Several Occasions".
  • So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

    "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".
  • That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

    Men   Expectations   Half  
    "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".
  • 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.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.318
  • A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

  • An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

  • 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.

    Opportunity   Men   Names  
    Robert South (1823). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.431
  • A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

    Heart   Men   Life Is  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.315, 1895.
  • 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.

    Heart   Iron   Guilt  
  • Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

    Robert South (1842). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.5
  • God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

    Father   Mind   Purpose  
  • Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

    Wise   Men   Mind  
    ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.171
  • Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

    Power   Men   Drawing  
    Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.140
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • No man's religion ever survives his morals.

    Men   Religion   Moral  
    Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.422
  • Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

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