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A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, he cannot outlive himself (Robert South Quotes)
Pride is of such intimate connection with ingratitude that the actions of ingratitude seem directly resolvable into pride as the principal reason of them (Robert South Quotes)
In great families, some one false, paltry, tale bearer, by carrying stories from one to another, shall inflame the minds and discompose the quiet of the whole family (Robert South Quotes)
Premeditation of thought and brevity of expression are the great ingredients of that reverence that is required to a pious and acceptable prayer (Robert South Quotes)
What makes a governor justly despised is viciousness and ill morals. Virtue must tip the preacher's tongue and the ruler's sceptre with authority (Robert South Quotes)
The unsuitableness of one man's aspect to another man's fancy has raised such aversion as has produced a perfect hatred of him (Robert South Quotes)
Sorrow, being the natural and direct offspring of sin, that which first brought sin into the world, must, by necessary consequences, bring in sorrow also (Robert South Quotes)
He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does he outset his pleasure! (Robert South Quotes)
The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks (Robert South Quotes)
The generality of men are wholly governed by names in matters of good and evil, so far as the qualities relate to and affect the actions of men (Robert South Quotes)
Some corrupt in their morals as vice could make them, have yet been solicitous to have their children soberly, virtuously, and piously brought up (Robert South Quotes)
After some account of good, evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence of good (Robert South Quotes)
They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary (Robert South Quotes)
The image of God was no less resplendent in man's practical understanding, namely, that storehouse of the soul in which are treasured up the rules of action and the seeds of morality (Robert South Quotes)
When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also (Robert South Quotes)
Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely overruling and despotic (Robert South Quotes)
In the soul, when the supreme faculties move regularly, the inferior passions and faculties following, there arises a serenity infinitely beyond the highest quintessence of worldly delight (Robert South Quotes)
Idolatry is certainly the first born of folly, the great and leading paradox; nay, the very abridgment and sum total of all absurdities (Robert South Quotes)
One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed (Robert South Quotes)
There can be no greater labor than to be always dissembling; there being so many ways by which a smothered truth is apt to blaze and break out (Robert South Quotes)
Sin is the only thing in the world which never had an infancy, that knew no minority (Robert South Quotes)
Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects (Robert South Quotes)
Their dull ribaldry must be offensive to any one who does not, for the sake of the sin, pardon the ugliness of its circumstances (Robert South Quotes)
No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it (Robert South Quotes)
There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony (Robert South Quotes)
Look over the whole creation, and you shall see that the band, or cement, that holds together all the parts of this great and glorious fabric is gratitude (Robert South Quotes)
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it, too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater (Robert South Quotes)
He who will fight the devil at his own weapon, must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch (Robert South Quotes)
Every single gross act of sin is much the same thing to the conscience that a great blow or fall is to the head; it stuns and bereaves it of all use of its senses for a time (Robert South Quotes)
Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality (Robert South Quotes)