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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
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
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye Men
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
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
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
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
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
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles

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