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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.

Benjamin Whichcote

That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
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
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
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
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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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Men Repentance Should
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Learning Teaching Way
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

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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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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