Born Quote by Benjamin Whichcote

“None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.”

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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

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Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth…

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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

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Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends…

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Christ is God clothed with human nature.

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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

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A benefactor is a representative of God.

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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

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