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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
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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Approach Flower Soul Sun
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
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
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
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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Men Satisfaction Wise
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
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
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men

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