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The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
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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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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As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
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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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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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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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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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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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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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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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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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Honesty is the best policy but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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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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It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
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