A benefactor is a representative of God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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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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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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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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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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