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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

Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
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
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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Feelings Men Pain Poetry
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
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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Helping Mean Superstition
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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God Justice Real
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England

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