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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Heart Love Malice Wit
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Age Reputation Suffering
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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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Men Procrastination Views
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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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Helping Mean Superstition
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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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God Justice Real
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

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