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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Benjamin Whichcote

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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Learning Taught Teacher
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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.
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Reform Religion Thinking
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
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
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
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
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust

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