Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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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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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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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