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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?

Benjamin Whichcote

Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
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
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
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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Democracy Men Passion
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
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
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
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
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God 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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