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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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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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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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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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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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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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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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