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Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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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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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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As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.
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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
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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.
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Honesty is the best policy but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
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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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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.
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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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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
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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.
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