Robert South Quotes & Sayings

26 most famous Robert South quotes and sayings (clergyman). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

“Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.”

“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”