Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDONIt is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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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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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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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 safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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