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Top Richard Steele Quotes

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Favorite Richard Steele Quotes

1. "Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip." ~ Richard Steele
2. "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
3. "That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart." ~ Richard Steele
4. "Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable." ~ Richard Steele
5. "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
6. "The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered." ~ Richard Steele
7. "To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude." ~ Richard Steele
8. "A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband." ~ Richard Steele
9. "A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript." ~ Richard Steele
10. "I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me." ~ Richard Steele
11. "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
12. "It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it." ~ Richard Steele
13. "And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength." As the love of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love to God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring, so all the gifts of God must lead us to the giver of them." ~ Richard Steele
14. "Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools." ~ Richard Steele

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I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow..."
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