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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.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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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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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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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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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies bad men to incarnate their souls.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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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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