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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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 HAYDON

Both Real Responsibility Responsible
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Feelings Men Pain Poetry
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Belief Causes Vices
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
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
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
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Divinity Genius Sparks

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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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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