We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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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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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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