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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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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.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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