English - Clergyman | 1634 - 1716
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Robert South
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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.
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Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
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