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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Benjamin Whichcote

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
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
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Atheism Atheist Thinking
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
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
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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Reform Religion Thinking
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
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye Men

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