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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.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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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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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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