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• The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Heaven, May

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• 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

  Richard Steele

  Men, Order, Honor

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• 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.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Fool, Sycophants

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.99

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• A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Men, Views

  Richard Steele (1729). “The Spectator”, p.272

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• Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

  Richard Steele

  Ugly, Honest, Fortitude

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.55

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• A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

  Richard Steele

  Fool, Pity, Objects

  "Selectons from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler".

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• Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Vanity, Weakness

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Robert Bisset (1794). “The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings”, p.335

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• A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Envy, Doe

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.94

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• The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

  Richard Steele

  Laziness, Doing Nothing, Labor

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• It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

  Richard Steele

  Heart, Men, Self

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

  Richard Steele

  World, Action, Admiration

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.136

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Atheism, Titles

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.199

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

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  Son, Men, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.125

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• There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

  Richard Steele

  Honesty, Reputation, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.23

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• Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

  Richard Steele

  Virtue, Virtuous, Offended

  'The Spectator' no. 266 (4 January 1712)

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Light, People

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• There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

  Richard Steele

  Inspirational, Grace, Age

  'The Spectator' no. 263 (1 January 1712)

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• The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

  Richard Steele

  Kindness, Men, Judging

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244

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• It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Hypocrisy, Quality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.421

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• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

  Richard Steele

  Mind, Care, Endless

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1753). “The Spectator”, p.23

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• I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.

  Richard Steele

  Home, Wine, Two

  Sir Richard Steele (1787). “The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele ..”, p.36

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• Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  Richard Steele

  Silly, Men, Opposites

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• It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Faults, Conversation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.321

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• Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Laughter, Symphony, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1822). “The Guardian”, p.116

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• When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

  Richard Steele

  Music, Men, Sound

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.376

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