Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThere is no better way to learn than to teach.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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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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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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 not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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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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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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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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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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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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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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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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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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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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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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