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
Most, Walks, Wounded, Mirth
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.
- Robert South
Guilt, Gnawing, Which, Creeping
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
Measure, Needs, Proceed, Pressing
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
- Robert South
Innocence, Armor, Like, Polished
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
- Robert South
Anger, Hatred, Very, Transient
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
- Robert South
People, Shelter, Permission, Impossibilities
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
- Robert South
Men, Desires, Folly, Capacities
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
Pleasure, Possession, Half, Worldly
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
Dress, Some, Conscience, Expects
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
- Robert South
Nature, Activity, Highest, Perfection
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
- Robert South
Modesty, Ear, Takes, Storms
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
- Robert South
Argument, Prove, Lighten, Greatly
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
Famous, Over, Sentence, Consisting
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
- Robert South
Defeat, Never, Rather, Fresh
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
- Robert South
Paradise, Aristotle, Adam, Athens
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
- Robert South
Opportunities, Right, Come, Together
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
- Robert South
Mind, Conceal, Given, Whereby
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
- Robert South
Great, Reason, Abstinence, Clearer
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
- Robert South
Passion, Mind, Drunkenness
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
- Robert South
Truth, Will, Person, Credit
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
Work, Fancy, Other, Faculty
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
- Robert South
Measure, Measure Of A Man, Gives
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
- Robert South
Mind, Other, May, Raise
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
- Robert South
Mind, Begins, Substances, Paradoxical
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
- Robert South
Great, Parent, Pleasure, Novelty
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
- Robert South
Experience, Surprise, Wonder, Stops
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