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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
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
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

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