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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

Benjamin Whichcote

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
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
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
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
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
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
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
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
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
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
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
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

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

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