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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.

Benjamin Haydon

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Feelings Men Pain Poetry
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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
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
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious

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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