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Samuel Richardson Inspirational Quotes (122)

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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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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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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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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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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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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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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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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 little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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