A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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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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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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