He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTERepentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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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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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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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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