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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Benjamin Haydon

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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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
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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Helping Mean Superstition
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality

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