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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONGenius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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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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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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