Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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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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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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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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