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There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Benjamin Whichcote

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
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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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Man is a wonder to himself he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies bad men to incarnate their souls.
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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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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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A good man's life is all of a piece.
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Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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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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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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