Samuel Richardson quotes - page 2

The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle. (Samuel Richardson)
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. View quote
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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. View quote
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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. View quote
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! View quote
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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. (Samuel Richardson)
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. View quote
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. View quote
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike. View quote
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The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. View quote
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. View quote
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Calamity is the test of integrity. View quote
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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. (Samuel Richardson)
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. View quote
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Nothing dries sooner than tears. View quote
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. View quote
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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. View quote
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