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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Benjamin Haydon

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
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
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
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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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God Justice Real
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
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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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
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
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
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.
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Belief Causes Vices
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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Believe God Justice Mercy

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