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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Benjamin Haydon

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Heart Love Malice Wit
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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

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