Invention is totally independent of the will.
BENJAMIN HAYDONAll 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.
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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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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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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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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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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