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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Benjamin Haydon

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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
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Successful
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Newton
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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Causes Vices
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Totally
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Malice
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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Real
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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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 Sparks
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Disinterestedness
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 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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Swerve
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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