There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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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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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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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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