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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.
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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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.
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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
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The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
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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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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
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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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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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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.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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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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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
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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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Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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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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