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Richard Steele quotes: Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Richard Steele quotes: People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Richard Steele quotes: There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Richard Steele quotes: I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

Richard Steele quotes: Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

Richard Steele quotes: Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Richard Steele quotes: A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

Richard Steele quotes: You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Richard Steele quotes: To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Richard Steele quotes: That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Richard Steele quotes: Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Richard Steele quotes: The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Richard Steele quotes: Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele quotes: There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Richard Steele quotes: I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

Richard Steele quotes: It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Richard Steele quotes: When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Richard Steele quotes: I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Richard Steele quotes: The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Richard Steele quotes: A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

Richard Steele quotes: There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

Richard Steele quotes: Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Richard Steele quotes: Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Richard Steele quotes: A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

Richard Steele quotes: The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Richard Steele quotes: The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Richard Steele quotes: Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

Richard Steele quotes: Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Richard Steele quotes: The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Richard Steele quotes: I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.

Richard Steele quotes: I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Richard Steele quotes: There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Richard Steele quotes: A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Richard Steele quotes: No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Richard Steele quotes: Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

Richard Steele quotes: Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

Richard Steele quotes: Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Richard Steele quotes: A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

Richard Steele quotes: A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Richard Steele quotes: Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Richard Steele quotes: When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

Richard Steele quotes: I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since ... I will come within a pint of wine.

I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since ... I will come within a pint of wine.

Richard Steele quotes: The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Richard Steele quotes: One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

Richard Steele quotes: Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Richard Steele quotes: It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Richard Steele quotes: He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Richard Steele quotes: The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Richard Steele quotes: Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Richard Steele quotes: Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Richard Steele quotes: Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Richard Steele quotes: It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

Richard Steele quotes: Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Richard Steele quotes: Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.