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Fear is prophetical of evil.

Benjamin Whichcote

Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
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
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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Delight Friend Friends True
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
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
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
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
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 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
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind

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