None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEConscience without judgment is superstition.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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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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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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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