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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Benjamin Whichcote

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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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Firsts Impossible Men
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

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