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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
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?
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God Justice Real
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally

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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