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“Better too much form than too little.”

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Book:Bacon's Essays

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Francis Bacon's essays explore various subjects, including science, morality, and human nature, offering insights into the Renaissance period's intellectual climate. more

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Richard Whately

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. more

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Moral Manners Good Man Good Manners Good Moral

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

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

“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.”

Men Interesting Divine Members Rational Agents Organized Most Interesting Divine Wisdom

Book:Introductory lectures on political-economy, delivered at Oxford, in Easter term MDCCCXXXI. With remarks on tithes and on poor-laws and on penal colonies

Source: Introductory lectures on political-economy, delivered at Oxford, in Easter term MDCCCXXXI. With remarks on tithes and on poor-laws and on penal colonies

“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

“Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.”

Knows Men Want Giving Self Reason Faces He Man Fairs Glasses

Author:Richard Whately

“Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.”

Safe Suspects Self-examination

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

“It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.”

Heart Book Study Subjects Uncommon Employing

Book:Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

“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.”

Long Study Overcoming Difficulty Trials Intervals Bewildered

Author:Richard Whately

“The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.”

Men Long Style Mark Leaving Cures Lame Censure Crutches Parentheses

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

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

“The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.”

Firsts Style Composition Rhetoric

Book:Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution