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The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

Samuel Richardson
Heart, Innocent
Samuel Richardson (1742). “Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents : and Afterwards, in Her Exalted Condition, Between Her, and Persons of Figure and Quality, Upon the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects, in Genteel Life”, p.217

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Samuel Richardson
Beauty, Husband, Heart

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Samuel Richardson
Running, Heart, Religion

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

Samuel Richardson
Heart, Temptation, Honest
Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.94

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Samuel Richardson
Women, Eye, Heart
Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.1584, Simon and Schuster

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Samuel Richardson
Heart, My Own, Knows
Samuel Richardson (1748). “The Novels of Samuel Richardson...”, p.103

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

Samuel Richardson
Character, Heart, Interesting
Samuel Richardson (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)”, p.3951, Delphi Classics

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.

Samuel Richardson
Heart, Blessing, Giving
'The History of Sir Charles Grandison' (1754) vol. 3, letter 32

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