Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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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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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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