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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary (Richard Whately Quotes)
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed (Richard Whately Quotes)
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar (Richard Whately Quotes)
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge (Richard Whately Quotes)
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction (Richard Whately Quotes)
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind (Richard Whately Quotes)
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages (Richard Whately Quotes)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's (Richard Whately Quotes)
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth (Richard Whately Quotes)
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us (Richard Whately Quotes)
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly (Richard Whately Quotes)
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price (Richard Whately Quotes)
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself (Richard Whately Quotes)
Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man (Richard Whately Quotes)
Many a meandering discourse one hears, in which the preacher aims at nothing, and hits it (Richard Whately Quotes)
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected (Richard Whately Quotes)
Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him (Richard Whately Quotes)
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far - sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection (Richard Whately Quotes)
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves (Richard Whately Quotes)
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face (Richard Whately Quotes)
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived (Richard Whately Quotes)
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well established authors (Richard Whately Quotes)
Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded (Richard Whately Quotes)
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment (Richard Whately Quotes)
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads (Richard Whately Quotes)
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism (Richard Whately Quotes)
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it (Richard Whately Quotes)
Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on (Richard Whately Quotes)
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow minded man has it not, for to him they are great things (Richard Whately Quotes)
They never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top (Richard Whately Quotes)