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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTo 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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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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.
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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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