Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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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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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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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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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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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.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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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.
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