It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
- Samuel Richardson
Thought, Better, Perverse, Insincere
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
- Samuel Richardson
Will, Which, Would, Mistress
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
- Samuel Richardson
Shame, Punishment, More, Beating
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
- Samuel Richardson
Face, Ugly, Makes, Odious
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
- Samuel Richardson
Man, His, Warfare, A Good Man
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Think, Will, Though, A Good Man
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Education, Otherwise, Figure, Capacities
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Test, Deceased, True Test
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
- Samuel Richardson
Will, Least, Jest, Diverted
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
- Samuel Richardson
Companion, Very, Require, Qualifications
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
- Samuel Richardson
Childhood, Pursuits, Our, Trifles
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Mind, Small, Other, Occurrence
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Happen, May, Tolerable
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
- Samuel Richardson
Fancy, Excel, Persons, Meanest
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Marriage, Cares, Dividing, Doubles
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
- Samuel Richardson
Words, Deal, Where, Restrained
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
- Samuel Richardson
Woman, Bad, False, Reformed
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
- Samuel Richardson
Tears, Poor, Pleasures, Mighty
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
- Samuel Richardson
World, Itself, Superior, Delight
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
- Samuel Richardson
Integrity, Mother, Calamity, Invention
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Husband, Lover, Often, Hardly
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
- Samuel Richardson
Observation, Always, Lay, Observed
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
- Samuel Richardson
Feel, Would, Were, Supporting
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
- Samuel Richardson
Humor, Quick, Either, Married People
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
- Samuel Richardson
Like, Republic, Most, Letters
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Fall, Often, Philosophers
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
- Samuel Richardson
Pride, Doing, Above, Base
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
- Samuel Richardson
Envy, Doing, Else, Doing Good
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
- Samuel Richardson
Above, Lasts, Nowadays, Fortnight
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Reasons, Hundred, Whenever, Approve
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
- Samuel Richardson
Kept, All Women, Appear, Twenty
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Cruel, Even, Kindest
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
- Samuel Richardson
Man, Sense, Presume, Scholar
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
- Samuel Richardson
Deal, Act, Like, Ought
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
- Samuel Richardson
Same, Same Thing, Clergyman, Ought
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
- Samuel Richardson
Made, Persons, Allowances, Ought
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Self-Love, Will, Kept, Ought
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
- Samuel Richardson
Young, Made, Which, Allowances
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
- Samuel Richardson
Mind, Grow, Will, Human Mind
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
- Samuel Richardson
Humble, Lord, Address, Madam
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.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Compliments, Rather, Women Are
Love is not a volunteer thing.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Volunteer, Thing, Love Is
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
- Samuel Richardson
Bad, Laws, Were, Good Men
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
- Samuel Richardson
Nature, Nothing, Disposition, Human Nature
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Indifference, Gratified
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
- Samuel Richardson
Woman, Think, Single, Amends
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
- Samuel Richardson
Man, Ambition, Who, Likelihood
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Will, Through, Elephant
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- Samuel Richardson
More, Loves, Fittest, Trusted
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
- Samuel Richardson
Lover, Seldom, Widow, Explicit
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
- Samuel Richardson
Life, Hope, Cordial, Keeps
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
- Samuel Richardson
Find, Fault, Than, Easier
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
- Samuel Richardson
Education, Give, Over, Latter
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
- Samuel Richardson
Humility, Shines, Equally, Latter
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
- Samuel Richardson
Fix, Favor, Prejudices, Deeper
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
- Samuel Richardson
Will, More, Field, Vast
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
- Samuel Richardson
Learning, Most, Opinionated
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
- Samuel Richardson
Will, Shall, Those, Bear
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
- Samuel Richardson
Happiness, Future, Laid, Follies
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
- Samuel Richardson
Always, Learned, Virtuous, Tutors
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
- Samuel Richardson
Wife, Handsome, Often, Husbands
Calamity is the test of integrity.
- Samuel Richardson
Integrity, Test, Calamity
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
- Samuel Richardson
Been, Had, Would, Alexander
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
- Samuel Richardson
Woman, More, Accountable, Steps
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
- Samuel Richardson
Offer, May, Very, Generous
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
- Samuel Richardson
Sports, Persons, Plays, Labor
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
- Samuel Richardson
Go, Rather, Having, Miss
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
- Samuel Richardson
Study, More, Quantity, Regarded
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
- Samuel Richardson
Mother, Better, Visitors, Generally
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
- Samuel Richardson
Women, Virtue, Cause, Generally
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
- Samuel Richardson
Busy, World, Most, Generally
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
- Samuel Richardson
Wife, Men, More, Generally
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
- Samuel Richardson
Believe, Like, Very, Ready
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
- Samuel Richardson
Woman, May, His, Estate
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
- Samuel Richardson
Game, Play, Better, Judge
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
- Samuel Richardson
Thought, Some, Established, Quit
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
- Samuel Richardson
Nothing, Dislike, Those, Please
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
- Samuel Richardson
Wish, Want, Tell, Curiosity
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
- Samuel Richardson
Question, Sense, Apt, Angry
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
- Samuel Richardson
Love, Marriage, Before, Necessary
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
- Samuel Richardson
Tears, Nothing, Than, Sooner
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
- Samuel Richardson
Think, Religious, Too, Wise
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