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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.

Benjamin Whichcote

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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Approach Flower Soul Sun
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
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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Able Men Speak Speech
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
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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Democracy Men Passion
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
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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Becoming Mercy Submission
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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Ends Life Wish
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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Firsts Impossible Men
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Evil Fear Prophetical
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men

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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