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 HAYDONNo 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.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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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 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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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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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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