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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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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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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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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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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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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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