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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.

Benjamin Whichcote

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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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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Atheism Atheist Thinking
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
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
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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Firsts Impossible Men
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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Christian Good Human Nature
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
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
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
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Learning Teaching Way
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural

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