Samuel Richardson Quotes


79 Samuel Richardson quotes:



"Calamity is the test of integrity."
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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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"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."
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"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."
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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
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"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."
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"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
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"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."
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"A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun."
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"A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates."
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"A man may keep a woman, but not his estate."
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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope."
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"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
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"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."
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"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."
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"Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health."
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"Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache."
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"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight."
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"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."
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