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

Benjamin Whichcote

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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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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
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
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
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
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
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Firsts Impossible Men
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Democracy Men Passion
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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