The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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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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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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