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Benjamin Whichcote

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
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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Men Repentance Should
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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Democracy Men Passion
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
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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Credit Letters Men
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Approach Flower Soul Sun
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None

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