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.
BENJAMIN HAYDONOne 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.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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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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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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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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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?
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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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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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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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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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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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