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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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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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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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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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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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