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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
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
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
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

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