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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
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
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
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
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
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
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
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin

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