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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEGod imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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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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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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