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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.

Benjamin Whichcote

Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
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
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
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
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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 is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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Learning Taught Teacher
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
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

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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