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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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