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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately

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

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. — Richard Whately

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately

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. — Richard Whately

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. — Richard Whately

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose. — Richard Whately

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true. — Richard Whately

Good manners are a part of good morals. — Richard Whately

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change. — Richard Whately

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow. — Richard Whately

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. — Richard Whately

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

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind ... — Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. — Richard Whately

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

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. — Richard Whately

Happiness is no laughing matter. — Richard Whately

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

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. — Richard Whately

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on. — Richard Whately

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. — Richard Whately

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

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. — Richard Whately

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

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. — Richard Whately

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits. — Richard Whately

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

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. — Richard Whately

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business. — Richard Whately

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. — Richard Whately

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. — Richard Whately

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. — Richard Whately

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. — Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. — Richard Whately

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables. — Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. — Richard Whately

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. — Richard Whately

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support. — Richard Whately

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

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

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion. — Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth. — Richard Whately

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. — Richard Whately

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. — Richard Whately

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately

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

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

Misgive that you may not mistake. — Richard Whately

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

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. — Richard Whately

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

He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge. — Richard Whately

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. — Richard Whately

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. — Richard Whately

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions. — Richard Whately

Better too much form than too little. — Richard Whately

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately

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

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. — Richard Whately

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. — Richard Whately

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages. — Richard Whately

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. — Richard Whately

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

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. — Richard Whately

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. — Richard Whately

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. — Richard Whately

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

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. — Richard Whately

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light. — Richard Whately

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. — Richard Whately

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. — Richard Whately