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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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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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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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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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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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