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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

Benjamin Haydon

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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Conscience Duty Swerve
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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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Belief Causes Vices
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
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

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