Special Dictionary / Quotations / Sir Richard Steele
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22 Quotations of Sir Richard Steele.
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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to hi ...2.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature ...3.
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful hu ...4.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a ...5.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who env ...6.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closi ...7.
Idleness is tThe insupportable labor of doing not ...8.
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a desi ...9.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful an ...10.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commenda ...11.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing ...12.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing ...13.
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to ...14.
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to ...15.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his ...16.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is fla ...17.
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the comple ...18.
There is not a more useful man in the commonwealth than a good physician; and by ...19.
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal ...20.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of ...| Next Page >> |
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