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All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. - [Deceit] Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren. - [Alms] Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got. - [Covetousness] Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable. - [Zeal] Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. - [Goodness] In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers. - [Charity] It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. - [Praise] Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages. - [Passion] Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in yourself. - [Reform]
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