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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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 eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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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 seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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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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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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