Richard Whately
Writer
1787-02-01
Books by Richard Whately
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Elements of logic
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Elements of rhetoric
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Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte
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Quotes by Richard Whately
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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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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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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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.
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on your side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
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