When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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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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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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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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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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