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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
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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Evil Government Monarchy Two
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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

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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