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

Benjamin Whichcote

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
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
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
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
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
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
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy

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