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?
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEBelieve things, rather than man.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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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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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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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.
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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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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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