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We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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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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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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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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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 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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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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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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A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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