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A good man's life is all of a piece.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
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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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Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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None of us was born knowing or wise but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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He that repents is angry with himself I need not be angry with him.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies bad men to incarnate their souls.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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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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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
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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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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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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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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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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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