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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Benjamin Haydon

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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Belief Causes Vices
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
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devotional Persons True Religion
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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

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