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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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Evil Men Successful
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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Both Real Responsibility Responsible
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent

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