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Fear is prophetical of evil.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
Stoke
Evil
Fear
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A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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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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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies bad men to incarnate their souls.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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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 of us was born knowing or wise but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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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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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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