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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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
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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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
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
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
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

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