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

Benjamin Haydon

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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Divinity Genius Sparks
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
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
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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Devil Satan Triumph
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
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality

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

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