We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA 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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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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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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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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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 can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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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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He that does not repent, sins again.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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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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