We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA benefactor is a representative of God.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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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 useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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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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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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