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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.

Benjamin Whichcote
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Benjamin Whichcote's Popular Quotes

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

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A good man's life is all of a piece.

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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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A benefactor is a representative of God.

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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

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That power is in vain which is never in use.

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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

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Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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