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Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light (Richard Whately Quotes)
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose (Richard Whately Quotes)
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object (Richard Whately Quotes)
Most precepts that are given are so general that they cannot be applied, except by an exercise of just as much discretion as would be sufficient to frame them (Richard Whately Quotes)
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less (Richard Whately Quotes)
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended (Richard Whately Quotes)
As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies (Richard Whately Quotes)
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man’s devising (Richard Whately Quotes)
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility (Richard Whately Quotes)
An old Spanish writer says, to return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; but to return good for evil is godlike (Richard Whately Quotes)
Bacon is throughout, and especially in his essays, one of the most suggestive authors who ever wrote (Richard Whately Quotes)
Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any (Richard Whately Quotes)
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless (Richard Whately Quotes)
That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one (Richard Whately Quotes)
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment (Richard Whately Quotes)
Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving (Richard Whately Quotes)
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it (Richard Whately Quotes)
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support (Richard Whately Quotes)
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth (Richard Whately Quotes)
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do (Richard Whately Quotes)
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man (Richard Whately Quotes)
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it (Richard Whately Quotes)
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself (Richard Whately Quotes)
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another (Richard Whately Quotes)
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light (Richard Whately Quotes)
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune (Richard Whately Quotes)
Women 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)
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one (Richard Whately Quotes)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument (Richard Whately Quotes)
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us (Richard Whately Quotes)