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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

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance

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