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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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A good man's life is all of a piece.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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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.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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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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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light
so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge. — Benjamin Whichcote
so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge. — Benjamin Whichcote
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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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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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good
a mere stranger will do no harm. — Benjamin Whichcote
a mere stranger will do no harm. — Benjamin Whichcote
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
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Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Joy is the life of man's life.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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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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A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
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