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

Benjamin Haydon

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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Feelings Men Pain Poetry
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
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
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
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Independent Invention Totally
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
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
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
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

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