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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Benjamin Haydon

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Human Nature Propensity
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
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
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
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
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Feelings Men Pain Poetry
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
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
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

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