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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

Benjamin Whichcote

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
Stoke
God
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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A good man's life is all of a piece.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
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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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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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Riches are but a means, or instrument and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die for that only is well, that ends well.
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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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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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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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