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Better too much form than too little.

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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
Philosopher
Priest
Theologian
London
England
Little
Much
Manners
Form
Littles
Better

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No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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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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Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
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A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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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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Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
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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 word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.
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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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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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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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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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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
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As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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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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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to 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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