A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Quote by Samuel Richardson
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Samuel Richardson Quotes
- Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
- 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.
- Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
- Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
- 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.
- Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
- Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
- 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.
- The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
- From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Best Quotes
- The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
- I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
- All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
- It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
- Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
- Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.