Richard Whately Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
Robert Frost
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Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.
John Tillotson
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I’ve said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
Alexander the Great
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
Francis Chan
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Bernard's Leach drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.
Warren MacKenzie
