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Robert South quotes: 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.

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.

Robert South quotes: Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Robert South quotes: Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

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

Robert South quotes: Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Robert South quotes: Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

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

Robert South quotes: The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

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

Robert South quotes: Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Robert South quotes: He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.

Robert South quotes: Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Robert South quotes: Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Robert South quotes: Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Robert South quotes: The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

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

Robert South quotes: Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

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

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

Robert South quotes: Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Robert South quotes: Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

Robert South quotes: Society is built upon trust.

Society is built upon trust.

Robert South quotes: Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Robert South quotes: An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

Robert South quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

Robert South quotes: An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

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

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

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

Robert South quotes: A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

Robert South quotes: No man's religion ever survives his morals.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Robert South quotes: Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Robert South quotes: 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.

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.

Robert South quotes: Pain is an outcry of sin.

Pain is an outcry of sin.

Robert South quotes: The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

Robert South quotes: A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Robert South quotes: Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

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

Robert South quotes: He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

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

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

Robert South quotes: Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

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