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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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 idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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