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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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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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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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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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Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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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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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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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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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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All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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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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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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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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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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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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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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He that does not repent, sins again.
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A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
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Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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44.
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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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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Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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