What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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