None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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