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.
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.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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