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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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S. Richardson
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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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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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 wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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