Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
BENJAMIN HAYDONInvention is totally independent of the will.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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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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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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