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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Benjamin Whichcote

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
Stoke
Dwelling
Conscience

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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies bad men to incarnate their souls.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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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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He that does not repent, sins again.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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