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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.

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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
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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Hypocrisy Men Soul
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
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
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
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
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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Democracy Men Passion
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
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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

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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