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• It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

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  Annoyed, Important, Cheerful

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• All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

  Richard Whately

  Gambling, Desire, Profit

  Richard Whately, Launcelot John George Downing DOWDALL (1848). “Elements of Logic ... Ninth edition, revised”, p.364

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• Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

  Richard Whately

  Reading, Character, Fiction

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• Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

  Richard Whately

  Circles, Magic, Stories

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.53

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• Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.

  Richard Whately

  Skills, Two, Evil

  Richard Whately (1872). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.29

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• A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

  Richard Whately

  Class, May, Fables

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• Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

  Richard Whately

  Sacrifice, Being True, Expediency

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• Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

  Richard Whately

  Envy, Feelings, Looks

  Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.247

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• Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

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  Medicine, Knowing, Wholesomeness

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.200

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• When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

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  Men, Opposites, Anarchy

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• It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

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  May, Awful, Spirit

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.347

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• Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

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  Book, Passion, Imagination

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• That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

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  Men, Extravagance, Expenses

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.155

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• As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

  Richard Whately

  Twilight, People, Tone

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• There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Believe

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.36

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