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

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in...

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in...

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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...

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

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

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a...

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a...

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...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the...

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the...

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

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...

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation,...

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation,...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less...

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less...

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so...

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so...