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Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
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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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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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
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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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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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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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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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Honesty is the best policy but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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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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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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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 folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
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The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
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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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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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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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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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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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