Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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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 government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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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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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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