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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 the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Procrastination, Men, Views

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.294

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• 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.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Chance, Life Is

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.418

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• 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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  Real, Responsibility, Would Be

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• Invention is totally independent of the will.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Independent, Invention

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.421

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• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Artist, England, Architecture

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.423

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• 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.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Ordinary, Nerves

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.285

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• 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.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Husband, Men, Giving

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.369

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• 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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  Swerve, Duty, Conscience

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• How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

  Benjamin Haydon

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.412

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• 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 do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

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  Fighting, Men, People

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

  Benjamin Haydon

  Devil, Triumph, Satan

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• Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Confusion, Newton, Mathematics

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.340

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