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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONMistrusts 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?
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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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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Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
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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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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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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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