The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhen we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEJoy is the life of man’s life.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEModesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTESome things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEMan is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAmong politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEReligion is … being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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