Robert South Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.”

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

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

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

“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.”