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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
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
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
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
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
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
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
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men 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
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
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

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

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