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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

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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
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
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
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
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
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
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Believe Disinterestedness Men
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion

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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