Robert South

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

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

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Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. ↗

— Robert South

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

— Robert South

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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. ↗

— Robert South

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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. ↗

— Robert South

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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. ↗

— Robert South

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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. ↗

— Robert South

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