Quote #5
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
More from Samuel Richardson
- The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
- I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
- That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
- Love gratified, is love satisfied - and love satisfied, is indifference begun.
- My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.
- Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
- O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! - I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
- Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.