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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

  Blessing, Men, Should

  Richard Whately, William FITZGERALD (successively Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, and of Killaloe.) (1853). “Cautions for the times; addressed to the parishioners of a parish in England by their former Rector. Edited and partly written by the Archbishop of Dublin”, p.379

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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

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Glasses, Self

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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

  Richard Whately (2010). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.1, SIU Press

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• Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

  Richard Whately

  Discovery, Persecution, Could Have Been

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.153

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• Misgive that you may not mistake.

  Richard Whately

  Mistake, Doubt, May

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.41

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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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• Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Poison, Half

  Richard Whately (1861). “Logic”, p.65

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• It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.

  Richard Whately

  Book, Heart, Study

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.484

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• Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Law, Suffering

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.243

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• Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

  Richard Whately

  Fire, Reason, Inference

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• Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

  Richard Whately

  Moving, Eye, Men

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• The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

  Richard Whately

  Kings, Lying, Gun

  Richard Whately (1860). “Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences”, p.38

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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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• 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

  Richard Whately (1846). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.394

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• Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

  Richard Whately

  Distance, Men, Wheat

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.248

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• The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

  Richard Whately

  Demand, Christianity, Characteristics

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.14

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• Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

  Richard Whately

  Intellectual, Style, Energy

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• It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

  Richard Whately

  Character, Example, Needs

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.152

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• Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

  Richard Whately

  Reality, Shadow, Substance

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.14

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Abuse, Rebuilding, Revolution

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

  Richard Whately

  Relief, Want, Increase

  Richard Whately (1855). “Introductory Lectures on Political Economy. (Introduction to political economy. Lecture IX.)”, p.197

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• Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Vices, Goes On

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.241

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• There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Believe

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.36

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• We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

  Richard Whately

  May, Opinion, Stereotype

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.40

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