Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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