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• Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

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  Men, Divine Wisdom, Interesting

  Richard Whately (1855). “Introductory lectures on political-economy, delivered at Oxford, in Easter term MDCCCXXXI. With remarks on tithes and on poor-laws and on penal colonies”, p.64

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• Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

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  Girl, Character, Animal

  Elizabeth Jane Whately, Richard Whately (1860). “A Selection of English Synonyms”, p.59

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• The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

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  Relief, Want, Increase

  Richard Whately (1855). “Introductory Lectures on Political Economy. (Introduction to political economy. Lecture IX.)”, p.197

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• Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

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  Men, Vices, Goes On

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.241

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• Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

  Richard Whately

  Love, Communication, Dark

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• Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

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  Religious, Men, Vanity

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.59

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• Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

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  Long, Overcoming, Trials

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• Better too much form than too little.

  Richard Whately

  Littles, Too Much, Manners

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.522

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• We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

  Richard Whately

  May, Opinion, Stereotype

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.40

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• Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

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  Reality, Shadow, Substance

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.14

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• The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

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  Understanding, Three, Conviction

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.15

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• As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Book, Reading

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.500

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• Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

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  Spiritual, Celibacy, Advantage

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.87

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.137

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• It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

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  Inspirational, Past, Perception

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• Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

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  Sight, Firsts, Absence

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• The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

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  Hands, Action, Admiration

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.535

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• As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

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  Art, Mind, Principles

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• No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

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  Complaining, Use, Logic

  Richard Whately (1867). “Rhetoric”, p.9

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• Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

  Richard Whately

  Use, Medical, Made

  Richard Whately (1846). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.394

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• One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

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  Wise, Ignorance, Men

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.416

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• The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

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  Party, Errors, Support

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.95

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• Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

  Richard Whately

  Party, Men, Vices

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.95

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

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  Truth, Taken, Should

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.87

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• Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

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  Horse, May, Driving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.30

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