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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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