Excellence Quote by Benjamin Whichcote Download Open image “He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.” — Benjamin Whichcote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Moderates Perfection Pleasure Use
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
