Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
BENJAMIN HAYDONInvention is totally independent of the will.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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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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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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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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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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