No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThat power is in vain which is never in use.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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