Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEGood men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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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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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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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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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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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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