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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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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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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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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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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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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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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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