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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Human Nature Propensity
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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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Divinity Genius Sparks
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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Belief Causes Vices
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Believe Disinterestedness Men
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Men Procrastination Views
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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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Helping Mean Superstition
All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
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Evil Government Monarchy Two
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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Believe God Justice Mercy
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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Feelings Men Pain Poetry

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