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Henry S. Haskins (1875 – 1957)


Stockbroker and man of letters.
Henry S. Haskins
Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
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Acting as your own sovereign power, grant yourself oblivion for past offences.
Haskins
A soul which is truly in earnest is not above disabling the body to discourage dangerous competition.




Haskins Henry S. quotes
If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
Haskins Henry S.
Not a little of our condemnation of the acts of others is spillage from our own condemnation of our own acts.
Henry S. Haskins quotes
A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost.
Henry S. Haskins
When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.
Haskins Henry S. quotes
No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.
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The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.
Haskins Henry S.
When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.
Henry S. Haskins
Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?




Henry S. Haskins quotes
Many of our intentions die after we have put their harness on.
Henry S. Haskins
Ugly facts are a challenge to beautify them.
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Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language.
Haskins Henry S.
We demand about everything of ourselves but discrimination in what we demand.
Haskins Henry S. quotes
Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.
Henry S. Haskins
Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
Henry S. Haskins quotes
The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.
Henry S. Haskins
Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.
Haskins Henry S.
The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad.


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