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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNewton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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.
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