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Top 30 Benjamin Haydon Quotes (2025 Update)

Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.”

1. “Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”

2. “Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.”

3. “Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”

4. “There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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 is imperfect and untrue.”

5. “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 is imperfect and untrue.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.”

6. “We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.”

7. “The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.”

8. “Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

9. “Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.”

12. “All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.”

14. “If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.”

15. “No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.”

16. “Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”

17. “When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.”

18. “Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.”

19. “It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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 be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.”

20. “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 be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.”

22. “Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Invention is totally independent of the will.”

23. “Invention is totally independent of the will.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.”

24. “Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.”

25. “The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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 done by ordinary materials.”

26. “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 done by ordinary materials.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.”

27. “There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!”

28. “How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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 public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.”

29. “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 public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.”

31. “The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.”

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Benjamin Haydon Quote: “Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?”

32. “Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?”

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