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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

Benjamin Whichcote

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
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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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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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A good man's life is all of a piece.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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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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