We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone 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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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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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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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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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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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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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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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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