None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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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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