Richard Steele - Love Quotes

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Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

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

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Richard Steele

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