Quotes of Sir Richard Steele - somelinesforyou

“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ The marriage 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. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Simplicity of all things is the hardest to copy. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ 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? ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Simplicity of all things is the hardest to copy. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ The marriage 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. ”

- Sir Richard Steele
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