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.
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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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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