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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Benjamin Haydon
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Benjamin Haydon
Age: 60 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 26
Died: 1846
Died: June 22
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Plymouth (parish)
Benjamin Robert Haydon
Mr. Haydon
Hayden
Haydon
B.R. 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 it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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