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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

Benjamin Whichcote

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
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
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
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
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
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
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 more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Darkness Light Mysterious
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
Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Evil Fear Prophetical
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
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
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

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

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