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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
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
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
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
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Able Men Speak Speech
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
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
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
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
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
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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Darkness Light Mysterious
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain

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

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