Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEConscience without judgment is superstition.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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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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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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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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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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