"It is an awful, an appalling thought, that……" — Richard Whately
"It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits."
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47 Quotes by Richard Whately
Richard Whately has 47 quotes on this site.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners…
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are…
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the…
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange…
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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral…
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on…
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More Appalling Quotes
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
— Georg Brandes
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling…
— Bobby Jones
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this…
— Enrico Fermi
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make…
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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