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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Benjamin Whichcote

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
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
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
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Learning Teaching Way
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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
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
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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

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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