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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.

Benjamin Whichcote

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
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
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
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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Hypocrisy Men Soul
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
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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Done Guilt Mind
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Learning Teaching Way
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
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
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
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

Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.

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