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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

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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Evil Men Successful
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
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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

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