An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThat power is in vain which is never in use.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEGood men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWe never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEOnly madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEMan is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWe are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAh! 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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEChrist is God clothed with human nature.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThere is no better way to learn than to teach.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet 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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