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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
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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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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
- 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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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
- 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
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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
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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
- 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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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
- 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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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
- Robert South
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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
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
- Robert South
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
- 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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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
- Robert South
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