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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

Benjamin Whichcote

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
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None of us was born knowing or wise but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
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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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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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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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A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
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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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A good man's life is all of a piece.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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 is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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