Benjamin Haydon Quotes

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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Astonishing Ordinary
Invention is totally independent of the will.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Independent Totally
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 HAYDON

Feelings
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Get
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Adversaries Race
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Malice
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Self
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Certainty Chance Chances Immediate
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 HAYDON

Nerves Ordinary

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