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It has been a sort of maxim that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning (Richard Steele Quotes)
I look upon an able statesman out of business like a huge whale, that will endeavor to overturn the ship unless he has an empty cask to play with (Richard Steele Quotes)
Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face (Richard Steele Quotes)
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life (Richard Steele Quotes)
An inquisitive man is a creature naturally very vacant of thought itself, and therefore forced to apply itself to foreign assistance (Richard Steele Quotes)
The gifts of Nature and accomplishments of art are valuable but as they are exerted in the interests of virtue or governed by the rules of honor (Richard Steele Quotes)
These men (chronic fault - finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye (Richard Steele Quotes)
Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of society (Richard Steele Quotes)
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the poet in liberal art (Richard Steele Quotes)
If our past actions reproach us, they cannot be atoned for by our own severe reflections so effectually as by a contrary behavior (Richard Steele Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The most indifferent thing has its force and beauty when it is spoken by a kind father, and an insignificant trifle has its weight when offered by a dutiful child (Richard Steele Quotes)
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives (Richard Steele Quotes)
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it (Richard Steele Quotes)
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education (Richard Steele Quotes)
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications (Richard Steele Quotes)
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life (Richard Steele Quotes)
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass (Richard Steele Quotes)
Mutual good humour is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns our selves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice (Richard Steele Quotes)
Extinguish vanity in the mind, and you naturally retrench the little superfluities of garniture and equipage. The blossoms will fall of themselves when the root that nourishes them is destroyed (Richard Steele Quotes)
The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth (Richard Steele Quotes)