Robert South
7 quotes.
Quotes by Robert South
- A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will.
- He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep away from his shop.
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
- Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
- It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.
- It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done.
- The shortest and the surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so.