He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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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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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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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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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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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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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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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.
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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