Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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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.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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