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?
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.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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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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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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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