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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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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Evil Men Successful
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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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Conscience Duty Swerve
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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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Divinity Genius Sparks
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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Helping Mean Superstition
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph

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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