None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThere is no better way to learn than to teach.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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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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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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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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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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