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“To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.”
-- Richard Whately
#Passion #Air #Castles
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“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”
-- Richard Whately
#Memories #Parent #Curiosity
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“Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.”
-- Richard Whately
#Men #Influence #Manners
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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.”
-- Richard Whately
#Selfish #Helping Others #Men
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“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
-- Richard Whately
#Good Morning #Morning #Isolation
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“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
#Men #Blessing #Should
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“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
#Thinking About You #Perfection #Way
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“It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”
-- Richard Whately
#Wisdom #Rebuilding #Neglect
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“Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.”
-- Richard Whately
#Discovery #Persecution
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“It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.”
-- Richard Whately
#Men #May #Folly
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“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”
-- Richard Whately
#Men #Sheep #Driven
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“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
#Wise #Ignorance #Men
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“Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.”
-- Richard Whately
#Use #Medical #Made
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“No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..”
-- Richard Whately
#Complaining #Use #Logic
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“When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.”
-- Richard Whately
#Mean #Men #Wages
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“The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind...”
-- Richard Whately
#Gratitude #Appreciate #Mind
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“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
#Men #Thinking #Giving
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“To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.”
-- Richard Whately
#Science #Curiosity #Fields
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“The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.”
-- Richard Whately
#Party #Errors #Support
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“Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.”
-- Richard Whately
#Party #Men #Causes
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“All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.”
-- Richard Whately
#Wall #Support #Decay
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“Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.”
-- Richard Whately
#Persecution
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“Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.”
-- Richard Whately
#Views #Different #Definitions
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“Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.”
-- Richard Whately
#Skills #Two #Evil
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“A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.”
-- Richard Whately
#Religious #Strong #Political
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“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
#Men #Extravagance #Expenses
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“It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.”
-- Richard Whately
#Inspirational #Past #Perception
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“A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.”
-- Richard Whately
#Men #Mind #Never Change
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“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
#Truth #Believe #Differences
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“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.”
-- Richard Whately
#Food #Tables #Dinner
