There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever...

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever...

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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

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

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to...

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to...

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

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

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable...

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable...

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to...

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to...

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,...

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,...