#will

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#kept #low #make #men #men and women

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#countrymen #every #every nation #good #good man

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. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#compliment #compliments #love #mean #men

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#apt #man #marriage #single #sufficient

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#anything #considerable #deceased #dies #first

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#diverted #jest #least #most #others

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

— Samuel Richardson

#much #shall #those #who #will

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

— Samuel Richardson

#find #know #knows #man #more

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#consumed #evil #good #good people #leads