The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDONWe 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.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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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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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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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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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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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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