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Richard Whately Inspirational Quotes (75)

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No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.
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The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.
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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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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.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
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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.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
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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.
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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.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
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As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
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Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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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.
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