Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDONTemperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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 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 HAYDONThe only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
BENJAMIN HAYDONHow difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDONThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNever suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDONNewton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
BENJAMIN HAYDONMen 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 HAYDONFortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
BENJAMIN HAYDONGenius 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.
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 greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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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