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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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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As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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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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All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
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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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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.
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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 word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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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.
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A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
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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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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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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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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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