"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles……" — Richard Whately
"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."
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Richard Whately
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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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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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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 Air Quotes
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one of 4,448 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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