None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEOnly madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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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 no better way to learn than to teach.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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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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