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Invention is totally independent of the will.

Benjamin Haydon

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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Belief Causes Vices
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Genius Never Fear Poverty
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Men Successful
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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Feelings Men Pain Poetry
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
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
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Age Reputation Suffering
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent

Invention is totally independent of the will.

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