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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
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
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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
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
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
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
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 neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None

Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.

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