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Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

— Robert South Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)

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

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

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

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He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep away from his shop.

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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.

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