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

Benjamin Whichcote

Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
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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Christian Good Human Nature
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
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Learning Teaching Way
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
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
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
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth

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