Samuel Richardson
Novelist
1689-08-19
Quotes by Samuel Richardson
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I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen
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How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.
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You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and improving what they think most valuable? Is true happiness any part of your family-view?— So far from it, that none of your family but yourself could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate; and wondering what ails them that they have not happiness when they have riches, think the cause is want of more; and so go on heaping up till Death, as greedy an accumulator as themselves, gathers them into his garner!
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You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and improving what they think most valuable? Is true happiness any part of your family-view?— So far from it, that none of your family but yourself could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate; and wondering what ails them that they have not happiness when they have riches, think the cause is want of more; and so go on heaping up till Death, as greedy an accumulator as themselves, gathers them into his garner!
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How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.
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I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen
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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
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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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Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
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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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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
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Love is not a volunteer thing.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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