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Quotes from Sir Charles Grandison — Samuel Richardson

1689–1761 England

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Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.