"It is one thing to wish to have……" — Richard Whately
"It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth."
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47 Quotes by Richard Whately
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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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It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of…
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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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