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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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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England
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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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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
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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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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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It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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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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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
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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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