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Samuel Richardson Inspirational Quotes (122)

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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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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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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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