Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTemperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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