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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Benjamin Haydon

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
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
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
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
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
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
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
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

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