Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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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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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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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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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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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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