Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNewton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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