Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNo 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.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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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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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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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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.
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