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 HAYDONDo your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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