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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONIt is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
BENJAMIN HAYDONWe 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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONWhen a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
BENJAMIN HAYDONIt is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
BENJAMIN HAYDONFortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThe greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThe only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTemperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDONOne 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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONGenius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
BENJAMIN HAYDONBeware 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 HAYDONThe safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTo 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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONAll 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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