He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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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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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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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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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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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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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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