Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
BENJAMIN HAYDONGenius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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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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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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All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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