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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. ↗

— Bishop 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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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. ↗

— 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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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ↗

— Robert South

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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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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. ↗

— 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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