A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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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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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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