Samuel Richardson - Person Quotes

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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.

Samuel Richardson
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Samuel Richardson
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Samuel Richardson
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.

Samuel Richardson
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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

Samuel Richardson
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

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A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

Samuel Richardson
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Samuel Richardson