The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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