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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

There is no better way to learn than to teach.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Learning Teaching Way
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Darkness Light Mysterious
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces

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