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Richard Whately [1787-1863] English

Rank: 102
Writer, Economist

Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.	Best	101
Happiness is no laughing matter.	Happiness	102
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.	Morning	103
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.		104
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.		105
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.	Wisdom	106
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.	Good	107
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.		108
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.	Men	109
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.		110
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.		111
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.	Money	112
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.		113
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.		114
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.		115
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.		116
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.		117
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.		118
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?'		119
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.		120
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.		121
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.		122
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.		123
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.		124

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