Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDONInvention is totally independent of the will.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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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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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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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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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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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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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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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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