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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTo 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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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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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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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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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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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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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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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