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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.

Benjamin Haydon

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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 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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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
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
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
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally

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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