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It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

Robert South

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Robert South
Age: 81 †
Born: 1634
Born: September 4
Died: 1716
Died: July 8
Theologian
Divine of the Church of England
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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
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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.
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