When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet 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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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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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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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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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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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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