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| Robert South Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. | Action |
| 2 | The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater. | Aging |
| 3 | In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. | Anticipation |
| 4 | All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. | Deceit |
| 5 | Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. | Defeat |
| 6 | Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. | Failure |
| 7 | Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. | Foolish |
| 8 | If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. | Generosity |
| 9 | Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. | Innocence |
| 10 | Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. | Novelty |
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