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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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South
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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.
Robert South
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation.
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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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Robert South
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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South
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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
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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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.
Robert South
