None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTERepentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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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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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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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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Believe things, rather than man.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Joy is the life of man’s life.
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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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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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