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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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