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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

Benjamin Whichcote

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
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
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
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 doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
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
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

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