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Benjamin Whichcote

Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
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 that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
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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Ends Life Wish
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
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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Approach Flower Soul Sun
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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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Men Repentance Should
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
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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Becoming Mercy Submission
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves

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