"Manners are one of the greatest engines of……" — Richard Whately
"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man."
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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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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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More Engines Quotes
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our…
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
— Bertrand Russell
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I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man…
— Unknown Author
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I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what…
— George Eliot
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You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his…
— Walter Lippmann
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan…
— Charles Kingsley
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished…
— Thomas Jefferson
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water,…
— Wendell Berry
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It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive.…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled…
— Aharon Katzir
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Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull…
— Unknown Author
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There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car…
— Steven M. Greer
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