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Richard Whately Quotes

«Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth»
Author: Richard Whately | About: Truth, Wishes | Keywords: on the side
«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»
Author: Richard Whately | Keywords: unmindful
«Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.»
«It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.»
«To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.»
«Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived»
Author: Richard Whately | About: Books | Keywords: discourse, laid up, stores
«Happiness is no laughing matter»
Author: Richard Whately | About: Happiness
«There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.»
«In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us»

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