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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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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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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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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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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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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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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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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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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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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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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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