There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
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Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
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If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
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So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first
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