The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDONGenius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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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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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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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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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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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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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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