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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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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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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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