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Great affectation and great ab...

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

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

The Eastern monarch who procla...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Anger requires that the offend...

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Ethical maxims are bandied abo...

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.

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He that is not open to convict...

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

As the telescope is not a subs...

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Even supposing there were some...

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

As hardly anything can acciden...

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

Man is naturally more desirous...

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Some persons follow the dictat...

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Controversy, though always an ...

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is a remarkable circumstanc...

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Men first make up their minds ...

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

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

Misgive that you may not mista...

Misgive that you may not mistake.

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knowledge of our duties is the...

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Eloquence is relative. One can...

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Of all hostile feelings, envy ...

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.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

When any person of really emin...

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

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