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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Delight Friend Friends True
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
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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Reform Religion Thinking
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
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
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use

Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.

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