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> [The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/the-great-difficulty-is-first-to-win-a-reputation-the-next-to-keep-it-2/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

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> [Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/never-suffer-youth-to-be-an-excuse-for-inadequacy-nor-age-and-fame-to/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

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> [Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/nothing-is-difficult-it-is-only-we-who-are-indolent/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

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## Other authors on Indolence

## More by Benjamin Haydon

> [There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/there-surely-is-in-human-nature-an-inherent-propensity-to-extract-all/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/fortunately-for-serious-minds-a-bias-recognized-is-a-bias-sterilized/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/it-is-highly-convenient-to-believe-in-the-infinite-mercy-of-god-when/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/it-is-better-to-make-friends-than-adversaries-of-a-conquered-race/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/one-of-the-surest-evidences-of-an-elevated-taste-is-the-power-of/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/genius-in-poverty-is-never-feared-because-nature-though-liberal-in/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/no-man-perhaps-is-so-wicked-as-to-commit-evil-for-its-own-sake-evil/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/men-of-genius-are-often-considered-superstitious-but-the-fact-is-the/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/men-who-have-reached-and-passed-45-have-a-look-as-if-waiting-for-the/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/if-men-would-only-take-the-chances-of-doing-right-because-it-is-right/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/the-greatest-geniuses-have-always-attributed-everything-to-god-as-if/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/beware-of-the-beginnings-of-vice-do-not-delude-yourself-with-the/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/this-is-an-age-of-intellectual-sauces-of-essence-of-distillation-we/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/we-are-a-compound-of-both-here-and-hereafter-we-shall-be-made/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

> [There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-haydon/there-must-be-more-malice-than-love-in-the-hearts-of-all-wits/)

[Benjamin Haydon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-haydon/)

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