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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNever suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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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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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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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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 in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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