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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
Novelist
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S. Richardson
Among
Wisdom
Things
Wisest
Fool

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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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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 do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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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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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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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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