17 ordspråk av Robert South
Robert South
 A pandemic by definition is everywhere. You can't expect Uncle Sam to come in and help. It won't be like a hurricane. Every community will have to fend for themselves. There is no cavalry. |
| Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. |
| An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. |
| Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. |
| Deeds always overbalance; and downright practice speaks more plainly than the fairest profession. |
| Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. |
| God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. |
| 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. |
| In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation. |
| 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. |
| It will probably come into the hemisphere by way of migrating birds. People are going to get really nervous when the birds start arriving here. |
| Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. |
| Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. |
| Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. |
| The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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