Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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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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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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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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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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