Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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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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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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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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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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