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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Benjamin Haydon

Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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Believe God Justice Mercy
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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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Men Procrastination Views
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
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
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
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 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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent

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