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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
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
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
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
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
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
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
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
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder

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