Samuel Richardson Quotes
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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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Every thing is pretty that is young.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.
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Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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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.
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Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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He only who gave life has a power over it.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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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.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
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