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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Benjamin Haydon

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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Men Procrastination Views
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
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
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

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

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