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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTemperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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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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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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