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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.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Teacher, Learning, Taught

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.113

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• He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

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  Thinking, Self, Fit

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.182

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• Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

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  Men, Soul, Good Man

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.83

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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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  Men, Idols, Carrie

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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 well.

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  Life, Wish, Ends

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• There is no better way to learn than to teach.

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  Teaching, Learning, Way

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.44

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• Believe things, rather than man.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Believe, Men, Belief

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• Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

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  Political, Religion, Principles

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• He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

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  Reason, Acknowledge

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.75

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

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  Neighbor, Made

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• The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

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  Grace, Sin, States

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• Fear is prophetical of evil.

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  Fear, Evil

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.122

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• Christ is God clothed with human nature.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Jesus, Human Nature, Christ

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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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  Humility, Sobriety, Mind

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• 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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  Mind, Guilt, Done

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.112

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• Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

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  Evil, Good And Evil, Be Good

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.72

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• Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

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  God, Men

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.111

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• Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.

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  Teacher, Acceptance, Law

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.55

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• There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

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  Religion, Contention, Unnatural

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.128

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

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  Angel, Repentance, Pardon

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.64

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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 is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

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  Men, Credit, Letters

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.149

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

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  Perfection, Use, Pleasure

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

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.45

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• What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

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  Hereafter

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.38

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• He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

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  Wisdom, Conceited, Errors

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.84

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