Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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