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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Heart Love Malice Wit
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

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
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
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
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
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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