Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761)
One of the most admired fiction-writers of his day, both in his native England and across Europe.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
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.
My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.
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.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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