Samuel Richardson quotes

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. (Samuel Richardson)
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear. View quote
Samuel Richardson
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. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. View quote
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! View quote
Samuel Richardson
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. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. View quote
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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world. View quote
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. (Samuel Richardson)
I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free. View quote
Samuel Richardson
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. View quote
Samuel Richardson
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. View quote
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. View quote
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not. View quote
Samuel Richardson
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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness. (Samuel Richardson)
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do. View quote
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My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least. View quote
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. View quote
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Air and manners are more expressive than words. View quote
Samuel Richardson