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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

Benjamin Haydon

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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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Helping Mean Superstition
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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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Evil Men Successful
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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

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