Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
