“Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Shame
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“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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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 between them 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?”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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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.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Prejudice
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“Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.”
Samuel Richardson
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“Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.”
Samuel Richardson
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“The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Passion
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“A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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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!”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Temptation
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“Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor
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“Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor
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“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sports
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“Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“‘Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.”
Samuel Richardson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
