M.K. South Quotes

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

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.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

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.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

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.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Society is built upon trust.

And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

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.

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.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

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.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Pain is an outcry of sin.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.

Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do.

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.