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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
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England
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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
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Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
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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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As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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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 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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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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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
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A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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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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Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.
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