None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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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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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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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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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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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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