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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
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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
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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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Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
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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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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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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 love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.
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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
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It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
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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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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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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
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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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