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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.

Benjamin Haydon

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Helping Mean Superstition
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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Conscience Duty Swerve
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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Evil Government Monarchy Two
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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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Belief Causes Vices
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
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion

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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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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