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Robert South Quotes

1634–1716 England

Robert South (4 September 1634 – 8 July 1716) was an English churchman.

England
Poets
Theologians

Also known as: South, Robert

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[M]ost of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)

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.

[T]hough reason is not to be relied upon, as a guide universally sufficient to direct us what to do; yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed, where it tells us what we are not to do.

Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)

[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.

Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert South (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.