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Doctrine of Life (Dick)
Doctrine of Life (Potts)
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Doctrine of Life (1763) Passage 23
Translated By William C. Dick in 1954
 
23. From what has been said, these three consequences follow:

1. If a man wills and does what is good before he shuns evils as sins, the good things which he wills and does are not good.

2. If a man thinks and speaks pious things, and does not shun evils as sins, the pious things [which he thinks and speaks] are not pious.

3. If a man has much knowledge and much wisdom and does not shun evils as sins, he is nevertheless not wise.