Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
—Richard Whately
Topics: Loss, Morning, Losing, Losers
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
—Richard Whately
Topics: Service, Helping, Selfishness
Eloquence is relative.—One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition, than on the wholesomeness of a medicine without knowing for whom it is intended.
—Richard Whately
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
Topics: Manners
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel, but cruel because it is wrong.
—Richard Whately
He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
—Richard Whately
Topics: Mistakes, Failure, Failures
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
—Richard Whately
Topics: Work, Giving, Children, Habit
Historians give us the extraordinary events, and omit just what we want, the everyday life of each particular time and country.
—Richard Whately
Topics: History
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 from transgression.
—Richard Whately
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
—Richard Whately
Topics: Manners
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
—Richard Whately
Topics: Tradition
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things.
—Richard Whately
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