Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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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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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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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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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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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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