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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

Benjamin Whichcote

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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Ends Life Wish
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
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
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
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 State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
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
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
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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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

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