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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 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
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
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
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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Believe God Justice Mercy
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

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