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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
Stoke
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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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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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 human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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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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Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
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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 ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in 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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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