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. Benjamin Haydon More Quotes by Benjamin Haydon More Quotes From Benjamin Haydon Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. Benjamin Haydon superstitions helping mean Beware 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 Haydon causes vices belief Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life. Benjamin Haydon religious believe fall There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. Benjamin Haydon wit malice heart Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent. Benjamin Haydon indolence difficult The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. Benjamin Haydon sparks divinity genius This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes. Benjamin Haydon essence class animal The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. Benjamin Haydon architecture england artist The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. Benjamin Haydon self-improvement inspirational life Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs. Benjamin Haydon triumph satan devil Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. Benjamin Haydon temperance How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness! Benjamin Haydon doe men believe 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 pain feelings men Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. Benjamin Haydon never-fear poverty genius 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 men Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them. Benjamin Haydon true-religion devotional persons Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. Benjamin Haydon Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. Benjamin Haydon look waiting men world
