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Ethical maxims are bandied ab...

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Falsehood is difficult to be ...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

All men wish to have truth on...

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Never argue at the dinner tab...

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Curiosity is as much the pare...

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Honesty is the best policy; b...

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

As one may bring himself to b...

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately 148 quotes

The happiest lot for a man, a...

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

To be always thinking about y...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

There is a soul of truth in e...

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

In our judgment of human tran...

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is folly to expect men to ...

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Men are like sheep, of which ...

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is generally true that all...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

As hardly anything can accide...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is worth noticing that tho...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

When men have become heartily...

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Some persons resemble certain...

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is not that pearls fetch a...

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Lose an hour in the morning, ...

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

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