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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Genius Never Fear Poverty
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
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
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
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
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
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
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
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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Divinity Genius Sparks
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England

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