Samuel Richardson Quotes

English - Novelist | August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Samuel Richardson

PeopleWorldBusyWhoMostLeast

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

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LoveWomenCruelEvenKindest

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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ScienceManFindKnowWillMore

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

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ManScholarSenseEveryPresume

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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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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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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EducationWomenGreatMenOverGive

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.

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HumilityGraceToo MuchPersonHigh

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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MindGrowBetterYouWillHuman

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