Samuel Richardson Quotes
79 Samuel Richardson quotes:
"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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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
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"It is better to be thought perverse than insincere."
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"Love before marriage is absolutely necessary."
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"Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity."
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"Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves."
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"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."
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"The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased."
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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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"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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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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"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 man may keep a woman, but not his estate."
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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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"Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor."
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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."
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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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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
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