"When a man has no design but to……" — Richard Steele
"When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass."
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28 Quotes by Richard Steele
Richard Steele has 28 quotes on this site.
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One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
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There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of…
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People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their…
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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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I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. .…
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Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to…
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the…
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Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this…
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The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we…
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More Compass Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
— Michael Biehn
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
— Steve Chabot
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
— William Ellery Channing
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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