Quotes by Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on...

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Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there...

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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the...

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Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

#Richard Whately

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

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

#Richard Whately

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

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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what...

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

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

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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

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Happiness is no laughing matter.

#Richard Whately