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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
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Man is a wonder to himself he can neither govern nor know himself.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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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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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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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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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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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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