all-gracious

Updated: May 18, 2025

I am punished enough, enough mortified, for this my vanity I hope, enough, if it so please the all-gracious inflictor: since now, I verily think, I more despise myself for my presumptuous self-security, as well as vanity, than ever I secretly vaunted myself on my good inclinations: secretly, I say, however; for, indeed, I had not given myself leisure to reflect, till I was thus mortified, how very imperfect I was; nor how much truth there is in what divines tell us, that we sin in our best performances.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4