Samuel Richardson quotes - page 3

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. (Samuel Richardson)
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. View quote
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. View quote
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. View quote
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We are all very ready to believe what we like. View quote
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. View quote
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. View quote
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. View quote
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Love is not a volunteer thing. View quote
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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. View quote
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? (Samuel Richardson)
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. View quote
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. View quote
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Those we dislike can do nothing to please us. View quote
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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. View quote
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play. View quote
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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. View quote
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. (Samuel Richardson)
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. View quote
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. View quote
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. View quote
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master. View quote
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