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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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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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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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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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