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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Benjamin Whichcote

We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
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
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Men Satisfaction Wise
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
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
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
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
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
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
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
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain

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