Quote #8
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
More from Robert South
- Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
- Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
- It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it…
- Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
- Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
- 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…
- Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.