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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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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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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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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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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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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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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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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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