Benjamin Haydon Quotes

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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 it after you…
• 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…
• 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…
• Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
• The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
• There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
• When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
• Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it…
• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
• 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…
• Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
• 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.
• Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
• The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the…
• The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man…
• 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…
• The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you…

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