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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONInvention is totally independent of the will.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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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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It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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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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