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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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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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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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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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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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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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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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