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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Benjamin Whichcote

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
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
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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Hypocrisy Men Soul
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men 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
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
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
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.
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Delight Friend Friends True
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
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
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
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
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

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