Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
BENJAMIN HAYDONSatan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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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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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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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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.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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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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