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“Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.”
“[W]onder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience.”
“[T]here never was any heart truly great and generous' that was not also tender and compassionate.”
“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”
“[S]ociety is built upon trust, and trust upon the confidence that men have of one another's integrity.”
“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”
“[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contracted model.”
“For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.”
“It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done.”
“[A]s for covetousness, we may truly say of it, that it makes both the alpha and omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.”
“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, by degrees gnawing and creeping into it, as that does; till at length it has eat out the very heart and substance of the metal.”
“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.”
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Robert South on Love 3 quotes
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“As the historian of manners, this poet, whose name unfortunately has perished, is the Homer of Spain.”
Robert South on Devil 2 quotes
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“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”
Robert South on Mind 2 quotes
“I feel no care of coin; Well-doing is my wealth; My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health.”
Robert South on Poetry about love 2 quotes
“And when my own Mark Antony Against young Cæsar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,—all for love.”
Robert South on Holly 2 quotes
“O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.”
Robert South on Books 2 quotes
“When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked in what manner a man might best become learned, he answered, "By reading one book." The homo unius libri is indeed proverbially formidable to all conversational figurantes.”
Robert South on Religious views on love
Robert South on Words
“The arts Babblative and Scriblative.”
Robert South on Fish
“Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue.”
Robert South on Grave (burial)
Robert South on Religion
Robert South on Aeneid
Robert South on Wonder
“Wonder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience.”
Robert South on Navigation
Robert South on Light
Robert South on Midnight
What Robert South Said About Others
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Robert South on William Julius Mickle 2 quotes
“Mickle was a man of genius, ... whose memory is without a spot, and whose name will live among the English poets.”
Robert South on Henry Hart Milman 2 quotes
“He is a fine young man: and his powers are very great. They are, however, better fitted for the drama than for narration; the drama admits his favourite strain of composition, and is easier in its structure.”
Robert South on George Washington
“While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.”
Robert South on Women
Robert South on The Faerie Queene
“Without being insensible to the defects of the Fairy Queen, I am never weary of reading it.”
Robert South on Edmund Spenser
“The great master of English versification, incomparably the greatest master in our language.”
Robert South on Robert Owen
“I would class Owen in a triad as one of the three men who have in this generation given an impulse to the moral world, Clarkson and Dr. Bell are the other two.”
Robert South on Sharon Turner
“Turner's Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons ought to be upon your shelves...so much new information was probably never laid before the public in any one historical publication.”
Robert South on Statius
Robert South on James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
“The Seasons, and still more the Castle of Indolence, entitle Thomson to be ranked among the good English Poets: nor should it be forgotten that the song of Rule Britannia is his, a song which will be the political hymn of this country as long as she maintains her political power.”
Robert South on Thomas Warton
“A change was preparing and may be traced to Winchester, which, under Dr. Warton, had become a nursery of poets. If any man may be called the father of the present race, it is Thomas Warton, a scholar by profession, an antiquary and a poet by choice; and by nature one of the best tempered and happiest of men.”
Robert South on Jane Austen
“You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age. She was a person of whom I have heard so well, and think so highly, that I regret not having seen her, nor ever having had an opportunity of testifying to her the respect which I felt for her.”
About Robert South
Robert South (4 September 1634 – 8 July 1716) was an English churchman.