To be exempt from the Passions with whic... by Richard Steele | We Heart Quotes

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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

- Richard Steele

Other quotes by Richard Steele

Body Mind

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

- Richard Steele

Husband

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

- Richard Steele

Beauty Nothing

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

- Richard Steele

Morality

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

- Richard Steele

Heart Man

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

- Richard Steele

Destruction

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

- Richard Steele

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