A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
From Richard Whately
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
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.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
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