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

Benjamin Whichcote

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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
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
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
A benefactor is a representative of God.
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Benefactor Charity Inspiring
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
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
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
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Natural Soul Virtue
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
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
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
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
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
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
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

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