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

Benjamin Haydon

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

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
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devotional Persons True Religion

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

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