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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Benjamin Haydon

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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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 must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
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
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
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
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton

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