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Invention is totally independent of the will.

Benjamin Haydon

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
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 Genius Sparks
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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 safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Believe Disinterestedness Men
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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
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

Invention is totally independent of the will.

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