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> [Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/innocence-is-like-polished-armor-it-adorns-and-defends/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

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## More by Robert South

> [There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/there-is-not-the-least-flower-but-seems-to-hold-up-its-head-and-to/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/action-is-the-highest-perfection-and-drawing-forth-of-the-utmost/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/loquacity-storms-the-ear-but-modesty-takes-the-heart/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/the-mind-begins-to-boggle-at-unnatural-substances-as-things/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/the-grateful-person-fears-no-court-or-judge-no-sentence-or/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/in-all-worldly-things-that-a-man-pursues-with-the-greatest-eagerness/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/speech-was-given-to-the-ordinary-sort-or-men-whereby-to-communicate/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/god-expects-from-men-something-more-than-at-such-times-and-that-it/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/it-is-a-noble-and-great-thing-to-cover-the-blemishes-and-excuse-the/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/the-seven-wise-men-of-greece-so-famous-for-their-wisdom-all-the-world/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/flints-may-be-melted-we-see-it-daily-but-an-ungrateful-heart-cannot/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/he-who-does-a-kindness-to-an-ungrateful-person-sets-his-seal-to-a/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/anger-is-a-transient-hatred-or-at-least-very-like-it/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/god-afflicts-with-the-mind-of-a-father-and-kills-for-no-other-purpose/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [A man's life is an appendix to his heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/a-man-s-life-is-an-appendix-to-his-heart/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

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