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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

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
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Firsts Impossible Men
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Political Principle Religion
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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Ends Life Wish
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
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles

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