Quotes from authors passed in 1761
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
William Law

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