It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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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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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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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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