Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. - Benjamin Haydon
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
- Benjamin Haydon
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. - Benjamin Haydon
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. - Benjamin Haydon
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. - Benjamin Haydon
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. - Benjamin Haydon
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in … - Benjamin Haydon
Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in …
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 … - Benjamin Haydon
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 …
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. - 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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