A good man’s life is all of a piece.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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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 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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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