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"30 Samuel Richardson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 August 1689. Died: 4 July 1761 | Writer | Printer |

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Everyone Loves Power Trusted
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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Beautiful Woman Accountable Attractive
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
People Hardly Anger Repent
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He only who gave life has a power over it.

He Gave Life Power
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Air Manners Expensive Words
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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.

Marriage Friendship Happy Pleasures
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Words Restrained Talk Great deal
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Necessity Invention Calamity Integrity
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Laws Direction Good men Bad
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The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

Innocent Heart Most Credulous
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

Wife Self-admirer Negligent Husband
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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Cause Women Virtue
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The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

Person Worthiest Live Die
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

Distress Time Mind Overcome
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

We Good Temptation Provocation
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

What World Humanity Weak
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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Women Observed Least Lay out
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Pleasures Mighty Tears Poor
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Men are less forgiving than women.

Men Less Forgiving Women
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
Romances Fire Imagination Judgment
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Spiritual Pride Dangerous Arrogant
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Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

We Dislike Nothing Please us
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What Wish Friend Curiosity
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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.

Good man Value Worthy Nation
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Field Science Man Find
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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Who Most busy People World
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Human Mind Grow better Worse
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love Draw Key-hole
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Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

Whom Fear Love Hating
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Angry persons Treated Prudent Children
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Samuel Richardson Quotes & Sayings