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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Benjamin Haydon

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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Belief Causes Vices
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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
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
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
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
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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