Robert South Quotes

Robert South was an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching and his Latin poetry. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. September 1634 – 8. July 1716
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Famous Robert South Quotes

“A man's life is an appendix to his heart.”

Robert South

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.

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

Robert South

Sermon preach at St. Marys, December 10, 1661, in Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions (1727), Vol. 3, p. 140

“There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.”

Robert South

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 578.

“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

"On the Danger of Presumptuous Sins", in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions (1727), Vol. 3, p. 291.

“No man's religion ever survives his morals.”

Robert South

Sermon preached at Christ-Church, Oxon. (17 October 1675).

“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”

Robert South

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 167.

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