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

Benjamin Whichcote

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
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
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
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
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
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
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
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

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