Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWe are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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