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Richard Whately

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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.


— Richard Whately


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Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.


— Richard Whately


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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


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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.


— Richard Whately


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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.


— Richard Whately


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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.


— Richard Whately


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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.


— Richard Whately


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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.


— Richard Whately


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All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.


— Richard Whately


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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.


— Richard Whately


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In 1829 Whately was elected to the professorship of political economy at Oxford in succession to Nassau William Senior. Behind the scenes Thomas Hyde Villiers had lobbied Denis Le Marchant on his behalf with the Brougham Whigs. Among his other works may be mentioned Charges and Tracts (1836) Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith (1839) The Kingdom of Christ (1841).

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