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Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
“Tired of myself longing for what I have not”
“By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.”
“Familiarity destroys reverence.”
“You know not the value of the heart you have insulted... You, sir, I thank you, have lowered my fortunes: but, I bless God, that my mind is not sunk with my fortunes. It is, on the contrary, raised above fortune, and above you[.]”
“My heart and my hand shall never be separated.”
“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”
“Have I nothing new, nothing diverting, in my whimsical way, thou askest in one of thy letters to entertain thee with? and thou tellest me that, when I have least to narrate, to speak in the scottish phrase, I am most diverting, a pretty compliment either to thyself , or to me, to both indeed! a sign that thou hast as frothy a heart as I a head !”
“But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!”
“And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.”
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