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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Benjamin Whichcote

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Manner Men Mind Wise
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
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
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
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
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 good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
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
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking

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