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He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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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 best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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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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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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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
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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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The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
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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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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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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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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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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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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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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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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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Honesty is the best policy but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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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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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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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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