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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
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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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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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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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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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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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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
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When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
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A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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