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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Benjamin Haydon

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Men Procrastination Views
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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Belief Causes Vices
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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
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
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
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit

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