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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.

Benjamin Whichcote

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Democracy Men Passion
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
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
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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Hypocrisy Men Soul
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance

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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