Fear is prophetical of evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEFear is prophetical of evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEReligion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThere is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEither be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEVirtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThose 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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEvery 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?
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTESome things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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