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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

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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Reform Religion Thinking
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
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
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
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
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
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

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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