“An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.”
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Famous Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
“Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.”
“Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.”
Source: 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