It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
More Quotes by Robert South
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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.
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.