"Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire……" — Samuel Richardson
"Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment."
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112 Quotes by Samuel Richardson
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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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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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world…
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps…
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for…
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Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
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Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us…
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates…
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Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in…
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Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance.…
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In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed…
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers…
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