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.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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...

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...

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

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...

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from...

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from...

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...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work...

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work...

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often...

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often...

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their...

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their...

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.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small...

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small...

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.