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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 wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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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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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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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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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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