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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

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally

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