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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Benjamin Whichcote

A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
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
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Manner Men Mind Wise
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
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

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

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