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> [Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/of-all-literary-exercitations-whether-designed-for-the-use-or/)

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## More by William Warburton

> [The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/the-skilful-disputant-well-knows-that-he-never-has-his-enemy-at-more/)

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> [Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/orthodoxy-is-my-doxy-heterodoxy-is-another-man-s-doxy/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/high-birth-is-a-thing-which-i-never-knew-any-one-to-disparage-except/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/fanaticism-is-a-fire-which-heats-the-mind-indeed-but-heats-without/)

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> [A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/a-lie-has-no-legs-and-cannot-stand-but-it-has-wings-and-can-fly-far/)

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> [Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/reason-is-the-test-of-ridicule-not-ridicule-the-test-of-truth/)

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> [Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/without-enthusiasm-the-adventurer-could-never-kindle-that-fire-in-his/)

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> [The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/the-egyptians-by-the-concurrent-testimony-of-antiquity-were-among-the/)

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> [Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/admiration-is-one-of-the-most-bewitching-enthusiastic-passions-of-the/)

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> [Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/of-all-literary-exercitations-whether-designed-for-the-use-or/)

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> [Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/short-isolated-sentences-were-the-mode-in-which-ancient-wisdom/)

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> [Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-warburton/enthusiasm-is-that-temper-of-the-mind-in-which-the-imagination-has/)

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