No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEGood men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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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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