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

Benjamin Whichcote

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
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
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
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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
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
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
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
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
A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
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
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking

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