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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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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.
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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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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
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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.
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Better too much form than too little.
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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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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
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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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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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He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
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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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It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.
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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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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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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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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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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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When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
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