A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet not a man’s self be to him all in all.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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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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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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