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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
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
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
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
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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

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