"It is highly convenient to believe in the……" — 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 justice."
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Benjamin Haydon
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17 Quotes by Benjamin Haydon
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next…
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring…
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry,…
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it…
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and…
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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