Approaches Perfection 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 to preserve…
• To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;…
• One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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