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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

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Atheism Atheist Thinking
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
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
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Becoming Mercy Submission
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
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol 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
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together

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