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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

Benjamin Whichcote

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
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
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
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
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
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
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
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
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
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

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