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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

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Adversaries Friends Race
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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Men Procrastination Views
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
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
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
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

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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