Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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