No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAh! 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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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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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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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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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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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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 judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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