There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDONMen 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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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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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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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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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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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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