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Samuel Richardson Inspirational Quotes (122)

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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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