All Samuel Richardson Quotes
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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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.
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
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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.
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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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.
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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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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.
Samuel Richardson
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