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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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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 wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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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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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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