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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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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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