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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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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 women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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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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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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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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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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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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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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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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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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