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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

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
Wisest
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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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.
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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