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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

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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Believe Disinterestedness Men
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
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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

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