"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and…" — Robert South
"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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33 Quotes by Robert South
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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret…
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not…
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the…
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives…
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that…
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and…
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to…
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An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
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He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
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More Adorns Quotes
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
— Honore de Balzac
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear…
— Henry David Thoreau
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
— Ibn Majah
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FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns…
— Ambrose Bierce
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.
— Anuj
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may…
— John Ruskin
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