Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEChrist is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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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.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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