Author: 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.

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

- Richard Whately

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

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

- 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.

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

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

- Richard Whately

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

- Richard Whately

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

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

- Richard Whately

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

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

- Richard Whately

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

- Richard Whately

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

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

- Richard Whately

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