Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

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• There is no better way to learn than to teach.
• The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
• A benefactor is a representative of God.
• When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
• The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
• The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
• None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
• It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
• That power is in vain which is never in use.
• Conscience without judgment is superstition.
• Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
• No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
• Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
• Believe things, rather than man.
• The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
• No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
• We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
• He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
• Fear is prophetical of evil.
• 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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