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Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Benjamin Whichcote

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
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
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
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
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
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
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
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least

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