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

Benjamin Haydon

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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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Believe God Justice Mercy
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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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Divinity Genius Sparks
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
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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Conscience Duty Swerve
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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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
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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Belief Causes Vices

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