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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONMistrusts 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?
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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.
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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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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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