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

Benjamin Whichcote

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
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
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
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
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
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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Done Guilt Mind
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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Afraid Anything Dangerous
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
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
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise

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