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William Warburton Quotes: Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
         

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.


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Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.



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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.



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High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.



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A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.



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The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.



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The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.



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