The Works of Samuel Richardson

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Pagina 70 - There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.
Pagina 72 - I should not account the debts incurred debts of honour; and should hardly scruple, had I not indirectly promised payment, by asking time for it, or had they refused to give it, to call in to my aid the laws of my country; and the rather, as the appeal to those laws would be a security to me against ever again being seen in such company. Adversity is the trial of principle: without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. Two things, my cousin in his present difficulties must guard against;...
Pagina 226 - Do you think, my dear, that had he been the first man, he would have been so complaisant to his Eve as Milton makes Adam — [So contrary to that part of his character, which made him accuse the woman to the Almighty*] — To...
Pagina 280 - ... that name, (the fault of fallen angels,) but that which may be called a prop, a support, to an imperfect goodness ; which, properly directed, may, in time, grow into virtue :--That friendly pride, let me add, which has ever warmed my heart with wishes for your temporal and eternal welfare. I call upon you once more, my FRIEND! How unreproachingly may we call each other by that sacred name ! The friend of your fame, the friend of your soul, calls upon you once more, to rejoice with him, that you...
Pagina 226 - ... all posterity were to suffer by it? — No; it is my opinion, that your brother would have had gallantry enough to his fallen spouse, to have made him extremely regret her lapse ; but that he would have done his own duty, were it but for the sake of posterity, and left it to the Almighty, if such had been his pleasure, to have annihilated his first Eve, and given him a second — But, my dear, do I not write strangely?
Pagina 155 - ... soul to a soul, allied to perdition ? That so dearly loves that soul, as hardly to wish to be separated from it in its future lot. — O thou most amiable of men ! How can I be sure, that, were I thine, thou wouldst not draw me after thee, by love, by sweetness of manners, by condescending goodness ? I, who once thought, a heretic the worst of beings, have been already led, by the amiableness of thy piety, by the universality of thy charity to all thy fellow-creatures, to think more favourably...

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