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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Darkness Light Mysterious
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
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye Men
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
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
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

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