The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThe only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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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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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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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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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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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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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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