The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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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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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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