Richard Steele quotes
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“Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.”
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“People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.”
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“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.”
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“When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”
-- Richard SteeleSource : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.9
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“Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.”
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“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.”
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“Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.”
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“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.”
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“It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.”
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“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.”
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“There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.”
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“A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”
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“One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular”
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“The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.”
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“I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.”
-- Richard Steele
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