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 HAYDONIt 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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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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