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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.

Benjamin Whichcote

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
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 State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
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
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
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
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
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
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
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
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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Approach Flower Soul Sun
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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Democracy Men Passion

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