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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.

Benjamin Whichcote

Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
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
A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
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
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem

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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