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That power is in vain which is never in use.

Benjamin Whichcote

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
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
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
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
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Manner Men Mind Wise
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Men Satisfaction Wise
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
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
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous

That power is in vain which is never in use.

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