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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye Men
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Men Satisfaction Wise
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
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
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety

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