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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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“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.”

Mind May Art Process Principles Logic Analysis Reasoning Institute Deductions Investigating Guarding Institutes Argumentation

Author:Richard Whately

“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.”

May Persons Said Conscience Horse Driving

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

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

“Misgive that you may not mistake.”

May Mistake Doubt

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

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

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

May Certain Class Novel Fables Propriety

Author:Richard Whately

“Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.”

May Poison Ingredients Falsehood Rejected

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

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

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

Wells May Character Reading Fiction Study Products Profit Good Work Relish

Author:Richard Whately

“It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.”

Needs May Persons Character Shows Young Plans Example Jokes Mere Absurd Affected Representation Ridicule

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

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

“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”

May Persons Together Past Form Friendship Wonderful Tree Circumstances Woods Curious Intimacy Forty Noticing Congeniality Old Wood

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“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.”

Source: A Selection of English Synonyms

“Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.”

May Character Care Habit Conscious Strokes Employed Vigilant Great Change

Book:Bacon's Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays

“We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.”

May Opinion Print Stereotype

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

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

“Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.”

Ifs World May Children Form Half Sentences Poison Deceiving Volume Fallacy Sophistry

Book:Logic

Source: Logic

“As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'”

Believe May Ends Truth Belief Differences Inquiry

Author:Richard Whately

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

May Moments Spirit Awful

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

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

“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.”

May Book Passion Imagination Moral Lessons Infinite Stores Discourse Historic Boundless

Author:Richard Whately

“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.”

Inspirational May Said Past Quality Ready Perception Former Latter Accurate Analogies Qualifications Deceptive True Wisdom Knowledge Of The Past

Author:Richard Whately

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

Men May Expected Folly

Author:Richard Whately