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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Benjamin Haydon

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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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
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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Divinity Genius Sparks
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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
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
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self

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