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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
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None of us was born knowing or wise but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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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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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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A good man's life is all of a piece.
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He that repents is angry with himself I need not be angry with him.
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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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Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
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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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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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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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