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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Benjamin Haydon

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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Men Successful
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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Evil Government Monarchy Two
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Genius Never Fear Poverty
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Believe Disinterestedness Men
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.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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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God Justice Real
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
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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Feelings Men Pain Poetry

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

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