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Samuel Richardson
August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761
Nationality: English
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: English Novelist

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

   

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

   

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

   

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

   

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

   

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

   

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

   

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

   

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

   

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.

   

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

   

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.

   

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

   

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

   

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.

   

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

   

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

   

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

    Topics: Life

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

   

Calamity is the test of integrity.

   

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