"Reading is to the mind what exercising is…" — Richard Steele

"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."

— Richard Steele

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28 Quotes by Richard Steele

Richard Steele has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of…
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their…
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. .…
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to…
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the…
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very…
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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