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Believe things, rather than man.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
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Believe
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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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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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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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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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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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He that repents is angry with himself I need not be angry with him.
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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 does not repent, sins again.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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