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Source: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
“Familiarity destroys reverence.”
Source: Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
“The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5
Source: Pamela
“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen”
Source: Pamela
“How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.”
“The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.”
“An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.”
Source: Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative
“An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
Source: Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Showing the Difficulties that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“Virtue only is the true beauty.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Every thing is pretty that is young.”
Source: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volumes 1 & 2
“Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.”
Source: Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents : and Afterwards, in Her Exalted Condition, Between Her, and Persons of Figure and Quality, Upon the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects, in Genteel Life
“The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.”
Source: Pamela Volume 2: Samuel Richardson Collections
“People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...
“A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.”
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
“A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.”
Source: Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Over-niceness may be under-niceness.”
Source: The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters
“Beauty is an accidental and transient good.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.”
“Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.”
Source: The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters
“Platonic love is platonic nonsense.”
Source: Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded [by S. Richardson]. [Another]
“Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.”
“He only who gave life has a power over it.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.”
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work