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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.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Blessing, Giving

  'The History of Sir Charles Grandison' (1754) vol. 3, letter 32

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• Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Rakes, Honest

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.259

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• To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

  Samuel Richardson

  Clergymen, Compassionate, Virtuous

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13

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• The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

  Samuel Richardson

  Thinking, Delight, World

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.392

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• Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

  Samuel Richardson

  Reflection, Yield, Evil

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• There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

  Samuel Richardson

  Pride, Men, Self

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13

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• The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

  Samuel Richardson

  Opportunity, Judging, Lasts

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Excellence, May, Fancy

  "Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady".

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• All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

  Samuel Richardson

  Distance, Dirty, Shoes

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.237

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• Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

  Samuel Richardson

  Lasts, Honeymoon, Fortnight

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V1: the history of a young lady”, p.168, 谷月社

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• If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.115

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• A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Justice, Good Man

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.283

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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.

  Samuel Richardson

  Animal, Savages, Human Nature

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.109

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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.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Differences, Giving

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.5

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• O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

  Samuel Richardson

  Envy, Rich, Doing Good

  Samuel Richardson, Pamela (fict.name.) (1811). “Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded”, p.281

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