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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Benjamin Haydon

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
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
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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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
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
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Evil Men Successful
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self

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