He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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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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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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