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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
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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Cases Eye Men
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
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
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Darkness Light Mysterious
A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
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
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
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men

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