"The Spiritual Side of Samuel Richardson: Mysticism, Behmenism and Millenarianism in an Eighteenth–Century English Novelist by Gerda J. Joling–van der Sar"

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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.”

“Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”

“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.”

“Samuel Richardson at the National Portrait Gallery, London”

“Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.”

“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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