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?
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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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 more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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