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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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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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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies bad men to incarnate their souls.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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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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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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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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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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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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Man is a wonder to himself he can neither govern nor know himself.
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