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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.

Benjamin Haydon

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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Conscience Duty Swerve
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
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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Helping Mean Superstition
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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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
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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Belief Causes Vices
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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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God Justice Real
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

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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