Samuel Richardson Quotes

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• Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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  Eye, Deals

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.384

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• 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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  Wish, Power Of Love, Trusted

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.432

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• For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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  Integrity, Stay Positive, Mind

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)”, p.6833, Delphi Classics

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• Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

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  Spiritual, Pride, Arrogant

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.73

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• Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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  Mother, Integrity, May

  Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.255

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• 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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  Mind Love, Perfection, And Love

  Samuel Richardson, Anna Laetitia Barbauld (2011). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

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  Wisdom, Appreciate, Firsts

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• A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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  Widows, Lovers, Refusal

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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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.

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  Inspirational, Marriage, Care

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.730, Simon and Schuster

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• The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

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  Men, Wife, Maids

  Samuel Richardson (1748). “Clarissa”, p.258, Рипол Классик

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• We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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  Believe, Ready

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.395

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• The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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  Different, Evening, Companion

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Mulson Chapone, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1785). “The Rambler”, p.222

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• 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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  Mind, Filled, Disagreeable

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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  Please, Can Do, Dislike

  Samuel Richardson (1990). “Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life”

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• Nothing dries sooner than tears.

  Samuel Richardson

  Tears

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.295

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• Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

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  Men, Angry Man, Bed

  Samuel Richardson (1862). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...”, p.197

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• The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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  Tears, Pleasure, Poor

  Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (fict. name.) (1820). “Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady”, p.114

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• It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

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  Faults, Easier

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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  Men, Wife, Understanding

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• Men are less forgiving than women.

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  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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• People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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  People, Hatred, Understanding

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.388

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• 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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  Luxury, Affluence, Drink

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.80

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• Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

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  Short Love, And Love, Indifference

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.444

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• Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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  Love, Keys, Elephants

  Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.1206

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• A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

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  Men, Fool, Flattery

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.243

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