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Samuel Richardson
English
Novelist
About the author
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Indifference
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Wife
#Men
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Power
#Envy
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Men
#Education
#Difference
#Women
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Evening
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Cause
#Virtue
#Women
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Ugly
#Sorrow
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Now
#English
#Lady
#Gentleman
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Learning
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Shame
#Punishment
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Enemy
#Study
#Food
#Quality
#Quantity
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Tears
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#People
#Act
#Angels
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,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Will
#First
#Reading
#Worth
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Youth
#Parents
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Men
#Religious
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#God
#Nothing
#Nature
#Human nature
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!
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Woman
#Choice
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Men
#Self
#Women
#Pride
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#People
#Understanding
#Sense
#Question
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#People
#World
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Jest
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Poor
#Tears
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Action
#Being
#Pride
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Men
#Laws
#Direction
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Men
#HusbDifference
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Thinking
#World
#Merit
#Delight
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Work
#Children
#Labor
#Sports
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Mind
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Words
#Nation
#Letters
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Man
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Life
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Play
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Women
#Humor
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Mind
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Sense
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Power
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Integrity
#Calamity
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Wife
#Heart
#Husbands
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Hope
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Future
#Misery
#Happiness
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#May
#Man
#Woman
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Wife
#Mother
#Husband
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Man
#Men
#Value
#Nation
#Sun
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Woman
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#May
#Necessity
#Mother
#Invention
#Integrity
#Calamity
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Years
#Childhood
#Trifles
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Marriage
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#May
#Excellence
#Fancy
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Will
#May
#State
#First
#Affection
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#People
#Humor
#Quick
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,
English
Novelist
#Time
#State
#Marriage
#Friendship
#Participation
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Will
#Key
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Wife
#Men
#Understanding
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Want
#Friend
#Curiosity
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Women
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Men
#Women
#Lovers
#Husband
#Loss
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Women
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Youth
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Want
#Love
#Will
#Men
#Women
#Compliments
#Compliment
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Observation
#Women
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Ambition
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Science
#Man
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Talk
#Words
#Eyes
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,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Children
#World
#Thought
#Act
#Parents
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Will
#World
#Man
#Woman
#Marriage
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#May
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Fault
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Thought
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.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Children
#Society
#Education
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,
English
Novelist
#Grace
#Humility
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Hope