Top 100 Samuel Richardson Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
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#5. It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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#6. Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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#7. Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
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#8. Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.
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#9. There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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#10. 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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#11. Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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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#14. We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
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#15. When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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#17. 'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.
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#18. 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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#19. A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
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#20. Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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#22. For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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#23. 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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#24. Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
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#26. I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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#29. What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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#30. Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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#31. Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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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#34. For God's sake *what*, sir? How can God's sake and your sake, I pray you, be the same?"
~Clarissa Harlowe~
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#35. 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?
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#36. What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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#37. Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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#38. Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
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#39. But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
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#40. The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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#43. Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
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#44. Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.
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#45. Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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#46. A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
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#48. Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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#49. The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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#50. Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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#51. This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.
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#52. A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.
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#56. An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
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#59. The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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#60. Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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#61. Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
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#65. A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.
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#67. Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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#69. Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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#70. Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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#71. The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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#75. Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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#77. Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
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#78. The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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#80. 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!
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#82. 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.
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#83. Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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#84. To be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives.
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#85. O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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#86. Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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#87. Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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#88. It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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#89. Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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#90. The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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#91. We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
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#92. For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.
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#93. The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
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#94. Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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#95. A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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#96. If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.
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#97. The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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#98. There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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