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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

Benjamin Whichcote

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Delight Friend Friends True
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men 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
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
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
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Becoming Mercy Submission

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

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