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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

Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
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
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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Evil Government Monarchy Two
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
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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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
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
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

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