Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

Richard Steele's Popular Quotes

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

- Richard Steele

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

- Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

- Richard Steele

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

- Richard Steele

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

- Richard Steele

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

- Richard Steele

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

- Richard Steele