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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.

Benjamin Haydon

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Heart Love Malice Wit
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
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
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
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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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