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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.

Benjamin Haydon

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary

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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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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