Samuel Richardson Quotes

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Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Samuel Richardson
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

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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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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.

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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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Instruction, Madam, is the pill; amusement is the gilding.

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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.

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Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?

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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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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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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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Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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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 little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

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For my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

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