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Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761)


One of the most admired fiction-writers of his day, both in his native England and across Europe.
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Samuel Richardson
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.




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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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My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.
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Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
Samuel Richardson
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson
Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.




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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.
Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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