Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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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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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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