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Richard Whately, a renowned British economist, was born on February 1, 1787, and passed away on October 8, 1863. He is known for his contributions to political economy and moral philosophy.

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“The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.”

Should Wells Pleasure Mankind Rewards Eastern Monarchs Blameless

Author:Richard Whately

“Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.”

Should Has Beens Made Done Turns Particular Anger Grieving Offenders

Book:Bacon's Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays

“The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.”

Men Should Hands Would Be Lying Waiting Chance Fire Tree Missing Design Kings Gun Motive Murderer Arrows Triggers Deer

Book:Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences

Source: Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences

“Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.”

Should Humans Truth Taken Testing Applause Censure

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

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

Men Should Blessing

Book:Cautions for the times; addressed to the parishioners of a parish in England by their former Rector. Edited and partly written by the Archbishop of Dublin

Source: Cautions for the times; addressed to the parishioners of a parish in England by their former Rector. Edited and partly written by the Archbishop of Dublin

“The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.”

Thinking Men Giving Should Littles Birth Concerned Occasions

Book:Bacon's Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays