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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

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion

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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