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Robert South Quotes

English - Clergyman | 1634 - 1716

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Man Measure Of A Man Measure Must He

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 Guilt Rust Conscience Out

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Innocence Polished Like Armor

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Defeat Never Fresh Discouragement

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Men Wise Mind Speech Wise Men Sort

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Together People Opportunities Become

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Argument Nothing Prove Lighten

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Experience Surprise Wonder Stops

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Great Parent Pleasure Novelty

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Mind Things Begins Paradoxical

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

Paradise Athens Rubbish Adam

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.

Man Expectation Pleasure Things Half

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